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andererseits – Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies
Vol. 9/10, 2020/21
andererseits is a forum for research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German studies.
R. L. Victoria Pöhls
/
Mariane Utudji
(eds.)
Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers
An absorbing analysis of what makes readers experience a text as ›powerful‹ and how it affects them.
Black Travel Writing
Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors
This study offers an outline of the genre of Black travel writing as well as analyses of travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published between the 1990s and 2010s.
Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings
This book investigates how women gained authority and a voice of their own in medieval and seventeenth century visionary writings.
Resilience Stories
Individualized Tales of a Metanarrative
A multidisciplinary approach to human resilience as a social and narrative construct.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent
A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature
The book shows how the feminist reading of literature can help locate two chimeric sites: Post-Yugoslavia and a female continent.
The Supernatural Media Virus
Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990
An exploration of the cultural relevance of the trope of the supernatural media virus and imaginations of the network society in Gothic fiction since 1990.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Dramatic Disgust
Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane
Pity, Fear, DISGUST: This study investigates how from antiquity to in-yer-face theatre the sensation of disgust has animated the dramatic genre.