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Author Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene), author

Title Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America / by Jamie H. Trnka
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages .)
Series Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 16
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 16.
Contents Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America; Comparative and interdisciplinary contexts; Literature and politics in divided Germany; Material and rhetorical contexts for imagining Latin America; Theoretical contexts: the emergence of Cold War transnationalisms, postcolonial studies, and area studies; Imagining the Third World in German cultural studies; Verdichtung and the emergence of aesthetic solidarity
Chapter 2. The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana InquiryCharting a new course for literature; Common places; The Habana Inquiry; Translating genre: testimonio in conversation with a resurgent documentarism; Counterrevolutionary zones of equivalence; Refusing to translate; Translating cultural concepts; Translating discursive systems; Translation and comparison; Conclusions; Chapter 3. Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State
State solidarity and humanist patrimonyExpressionist redux: the New Man and the production of socialism in Volker Braun; Productive contradictions with Latin American Marxisms; Transcontextual interruptions; Unforgettable guerrillera; Authoring the New Man; Conclusions; Chapter 4. The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner M©ơller's The Task; The theaterbody and its subjects; Latin America and the Caribbean at the intersection of revolutionary histories; Commentary and relational reading; The Second World intellectual and writing from the middle
Chapter 5. A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's AdenauerplatzA new political realism?; From trope to rhetoric, from internationalist to transnational antifascist solidarities; "Hinter dem Faschismus steckt das Kapital ... "; Transnational walking around and the globalization of fascist memories; Solidary sentiments; Conclusions; Chapter 6. The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity; Aesthetics, solidarity, and the political; Limits; Appendix. "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh; Archival Collections; Works Cited; Index
Summary "Revolutionary Subjects demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Trnka examines textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, which, she argues, anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Enzensberger, Hans Magnus -- Criticism and interpretation
Braun, Volker, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation
Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation
Delius, Friedrich Christian, 1943-2022 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Braun, Volker, 1939- fast
Delius, Friedrich Christian, 1943-2022 fast
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus fast
Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995 fast
Subject German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Politics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German literature
Literature
Politics in literature
Lateinamerikabild
Ost-West-Konflikt Motiv
Solidarität Motiv
SUBJECT Latin America -- In literature
Subject Latin America
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Walsh, Donald Devenish, 1903-1980, translator.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Caminando alrededor. English
ISBN 3110376555
9783110376555
9783110392883
3110392887
3110553031
9783110553031