Therese Steffen

Männlichkeit ist nichts Gottgegebenes, sondern ein Konstrukt. Nicht grundlos tritt Männlichkeit in der modernen Forschung nur noch im Plural "Männlichkeiten" auf. Der Begriff hat seine strenge kategoriale Gültigkeit verloren, die Grenzen zwischen den Geschlechtern diffundieren. Sowohl Feuilleton, Populärliteratur, Film wie wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen spiegeln heute Männlichkeit zumindest als sozialpsychologisch begründete "Deformation", deren "Bewältigungsprinzipien" von der anglo-amerikanischen Forschung längst aufgezeigt wurden. Namhafte Gender-Forschende haben sich im vorliegenden Band mit der "Krisenfigur Mann" auseinandergesetzt und gehen ihren kulturellen, d.h. visuellen, literarischen und sozio-historischen Repräsentationen auf den Grund.

Mythos - Realität - Repräsentation - Rollendruck

Masculinities - Maskulinitäten

Lindy Stiebel

Lewis Nkosi's influence as both a South African writer and critic has been profound. His significance stems from the fact that he was one of the very few surviving members of the Drum generation of writers of the 1950s; one who continued to write throughout the apartheid and post-apartheid decades. As an author of plays, critical essays, and novels, Nkosi's voice is preserved in Letters to My Native Soil, which collects correspondence between the writer and others, and provides a valuable insight into a working writer's life in Europe and at home. The book is illustrated with personal photographs and accompanied by Nkosi's own work in the form of appendices. (Series: African Languages - African Literatures. Langues Africaines - Litteratures Africaines - Vol. 6)

Lewis Nkosi Writes Home (2001-2009)

Letters to my Native Soil

Gabriele Rippl

Philipp Schweighauser

Tiina Kirss

Margit Sutrop

Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as diverse as Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Vikram Seth’s Two Lives, deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson’s Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion of “cultural trauma”; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and culture.

Life Writing in an Age of Trauma

Haunted narratives

Therese Steffen

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