DISORIENTING EASTERN EUROPE: JUDITH HERMANN'S AFFECTIVE GEOGRAPHY

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS Pub Date : 2024-08-25 DOI:10.1111/glal.12428
Natasha Gordinsky
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This article presents a geocritical interpretation (based on the methodological approach developed by Robert Tally) of two of Judith Hermann's short stories – ‘Diesseits der Oder’ and ‘Osten’. Written almost twenty years apart, the first of these takes place amidst the Oderbruch, whilst the second comprises Hermann's only literary text about a journey to Ukraine. Drawing on interdisciplinary spatial research, I offer a close reading of both stories as they stage, in different ways, an affective experience of East European space. Moreover, I argue that through her critical investigation of the ‘East’ as an imagined and real space, Hermann emerges as a geocritic herself. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's notion of latency in post-war culture, I contend that ‘Diesseits der Oder’ and ‘Osten’ are constituted as poetic texts that foreground disorientation through the mode of latency as a crucial phenomenological device. Once brought together into their historical and geopolitical contexts and explored through the aesthetic prism of representation of the ‘East’, Hermann's short stories are seen to advance a radical critique of perceptions of Eastern Europe in the German post-war literary and geographic imagination.

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迷失方向的东欧:朱迪斯-赫尔曼的情感地理学
本文基于罗伯特-塔利(Robert Tally)提出的方法论,对朱迪斯-赫尔曼(Judith Hermann)的两部短篇小说《奥得河之畔》(Diesseits der Oder)和《奥斯滕》(Osten)进行了地理批评解读。前者的故事发生在奥得河畔,而后者则是赫尔曼唯一一部关于乌克兰之旅的文学作品。通过跨学科的空间研究,我对这两篇小说进行了细读,因为它们以不同的方式展现了对东欧空间的情感体验。此外,我还认为,通过对作为想象和现实空间的 "东方 "的批判性研究,赫尔曼本人也成为了一名地理批评家。借鉴萨拉-艾哈迈德(Sara Ahmed)的同性恋现象学和汉斯-乌尔里希-贡布雷希特(Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht)的战后文化中的潜伏性概念,我认为《奥得河之畔》和《奥斯滕》作为诗歌文本,通过潜伏性模式这一关键的现象学手段,凸显了迷失方向。一旦将赫尔曼的短篇小说与它们的历史和地缘政治背景结合在一起,并通过 "东方 "表征的美学棱镜进行探讨,我们就会发现赫尔曼的短篇小说推进了对德国战后文学和地理想象中的东欧观念的激进批判。
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN-
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期刊介绍: - German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.
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Issue Information DISORIENTING EASTERN EUROPE: JUDITH HERMANN'S AFFECTIVE GEOGRAPHY THE CRISIS OF SOCIABILITY AND LAUGHTER IN THOMAS MANN'S DER ZAUBERBERG LOST AT SEA: MARITIME MODERNITY AND THE NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITY IN THEODOR STORM'S ‘HANS UND HEINZ KIRCH’ ‘DAS MÖRDERISCHE GESETZ DES LEBENS’: ABORTION, EUGENICS AND SOCIAL DARWINISM IN DOLOROSA'S UNFRUCHTBARKEIT (1905) AND DIE STARKEN (1907)
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