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From Popular Goethe to Global Pop.
The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. With a
Foreword by Aleida Assmann.
Edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann
Rodopi Amsterdam/New York, NY 2013. 257 pp. (Internationale
Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
166)
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This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of
the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary
discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West
predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically
reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold
War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this
collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a
reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs.
Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection
draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective.
Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and
non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological
programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the
formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary
perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain,
Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Aleida Assmann: Vorwort
Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann: Einleitung: Annäherungen an den
WestenProjekte, Praktiken, Prozesse
Anil Bhatti: Der Orient als Experimentierfeld. Goethes Divan und der
Aneignungsprozess kolonialen Wissens
Katrin Schmeißner: Goethe als Korrektiv: Klassiker-Entwürfe Benedetto
Crocesund José Ortega y Gassets
Kathleen Starck: A Lot of Catching Up to Do ? The West as a Civiliser
ofPost-Cold War Eastern Europe in Rose Tremain?s The Road Home
Oliver Lindner: The End of the West in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Michael Ostheimer: Im Zeichen des Wolfs. Die Schriftsteller Jiang Rong
undLu Xun als Grenzgänger zwischen chinesischer Traditionund
westlicher Moderne
Susan Nitzsche: Regional (Re)Conceptions of the Irish West
Malreddy Pavan Kumar: Pulp, Sci-fi and the Politics of Other Fictions:
Face to Face with Mohsin Hamid
Birte Heidemann: Embodiments of the West: Texture and Textuality of
theSymbolic Body in Mohsin Hamid?s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Niven Kumar & Lucyna Swiatek: Contradictions of Human Agency from
Victorian Cosmopolitanism to Postmodern Eclecticism
Denis Simon: New Narrative Forms as a Subversion of Established
Literary Norms:Walter Pater?s Marius the Epicureanand the Negative
Bildungsromanof the 1880s and 1890s
Ines Detmers: ?Look West in Anger?: Exklusive Emotopien in Christian
Krachts1979 und Salman Rushdies Fury. Ein Beitrag zur Affektpoetik des
neo-dekadenten Romans
Ana Sobral: Towards a ?World Revolution??Forging a Transnational
Emancipation Narrative fromTahrir Square to Wall Street
Notes on Contributors
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