Weiße Normalität. Perspektiven einer postkolonialen Literaturdidaktik. Von Magdalena Kißling. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2020. 432 pages. €45,00 gebunden oder eBook.

Abstract

writing and the projection of a cultural other that has shaped scholarship. However, Leitloff does not engage in substance with Hartmut Böhme’s monograph on Fichte (1992) and does not even mention David Simo’s seminal book on interculturality and aesthetic experience (1993), which would certainly have enriched her study. In particular the relation between aesthetic experience and Fichte’s emphatic concepts of knowledge and research represents a crucial dimension that is neglected here. Apart from Fichte scholars, for whom this book will be valuable, Leitloff’s monograph remains of interest for those scholars seeking to bridge the linguistic boundaries that often limit philological research, such as those between German, Brazilian, or Cuban literature, whose respective audiences remain largely divided. This is an important ambition not just for the field of literary studies, but cultural studies at large. In her dissertation, Leitloff fulfills this ambition in part, while mapping out a territory for future scholars to venture into.