Abstract:The worldliness that characterizes the literary fiction of the self-identified Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa can be understood as an expression of "Jewish purpose" (Adam Sutcliffe), entailing solidarity with other persecuted minorities rooted in the Jewish experience, and especially Jewish suffering. This article focuses on Grjasnowa's Der verlorene Sohn, in which a Muslim child is taken from his family and brought to St. Petersburg. The article explores the depiction of Islamophobia in Imperial Russia and how seemingly extraneous allusions to anti-Semitism in fact underpin a broader critique of the Enlightenment's unfulfilled promise. Subsequently, it is argued that the narrator can be construed as a "non-Jewish Jew" (Isaac Deutscher), with a Jewish identity that is expressed through social and ethical commitment rather than belief. Finally, the article explores tensions inherent in Jewish purpose—including the perennial worry that Jews may be required to elide their particularity for the sake of universal values.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev005
Stephan Jaeger
{"title":"Katrin Sieg. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum","authors":"Stephan Jaeger","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91149328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev004
Christine Korte
{"title":"Rick McCormick. Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch","authors":"Christine Korte","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"22 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80961699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Against the backdrop of the global circulation of reggae and dancehall music, the article argues that the emergence of these genres in Germany resulted from multidirectional collaborations among musicians in Germany, Jamaica, and other places. Focusing on Gentleman and Seeed, Germany's two most successful reggae artists, the article examines specific aesthetic forms and cultural practices as sites of multidirectionality and collaborative practice, such as the riddim, the feature song, the use of Jamaican Patois, and the journey to Jamaica. In the German case, the global dissemination and appropriation of Jamaican popular music resulted in the formulation of heterogeneous visions of transnational communities related to collaborative musical practices. At the same time, the article explains Gentleman's and Seeed's appropriation of this Black popular music culture as responses to their experiences in postwall Germany.
{"title":"Multidirectionality and Collaborative Practice: Reggae and Dancehall Music between Germany and Jamaica","authors":"Christoph Schaub","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Against the backdrop of the global circulation of reggae and dancehall music, the article argues that the emergence of these genres in Germany resulted from multidirectional collaborations among musicians in Germany, Jamaica, and other places. Focusing on Gentleman and Seeed, Germany's two most successful reggae artists, the article examines specific aesthetic forms and cultural practices as sites of multidirectionality and collaborative practice, such as the riddim, the feature song, the use of Jamaican Patois, and the journey to Jamaica. In the German case, the global dissemination and appropriation of Jamaican popular music resulted in the formulation of heterogeneous visions of transnational communities related to collaborative musical practices. At the same time, the article explains Gentleman's and Seeed's appropriation of this Black popular music culture as responses to their experiences in postwall Germany.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"61 12 1","pages":"405 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78381410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay proposes to reassess the importance of Wolfgang Hildesheimer's radio work Monolog (first broadcast in 1964) in the German writer's oeuvre by studying its manifold and complex thematization of old age. The protagonist's self-imposed solitude and yearning for disembodiment are interpreted in the light of theories of aging that are based on both chronometric and "lived" time. This close reading of old age in Monolog duly takes into account the medium for which it was written and is informed by both Hildesheimer's previous radio art and his evolving world view.
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Abstract:This article examines the way in which Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s novel Außer sich (2017) blurs the boundaries between the human and the inhuman to challenge normative notions of humanity as clearly gendered. Focusing primarily on the protagonist’s transgender body, I analyze the textual instances in which inhuman entities (animals, parasites, objects) disrupt ambiguously gendered anatomies, materializing their dehumanized position under normativity. Drawing on the theorizations of queer inhumanism by Dana Luciano, Mel Y. Chen, and Eunjung Kim, I show how the novel turns the inhuman into an instrument of resistance against the coercive logics of the human through what I term “becoming queer in/human.” By letting the inhuman suspend the prerogatives of human morphologies, “becoming queer in/human” allows for alternative ontologies beyond the binary to become possible. In activating the productive potential of confusion, the narrative opens up the human and its genders to rearticulation, contributing to contemporary German debates in envisioning a different future for the transgender subject.
摘要:本文探讨萨沙·玛丽安娜·萨尔兹曼的小说《我是你》(2017)模糊了人类与非人之间的界限，从而挑战了人类明确性别化的规范观念。我主要关注主人公的跨性别身体，分析了文本实例，其中不人道的实体(动物、寄生虫、物体)破坏了模糊的性别解剖学，使它们在规范性下的非人性化地位具体化。借助Dana Luciano、Mel Y. Chen和Eunjung Kim关于酷儿非人道主义的理论，我展示了小说如何通过我所说的“成为酷儿/人”，将非人道变成抵抗人类强制逻辑的工具。通过让非人暂停人类形态的特权，“成为/人类中的酷儿”允许超越二元的替代本体论成为可能。在激活混乱的生产潜力的过程中，叙事打开了人类及其性别的重新表述，为当代德国的跨性别主体设想一个不同的未来做出了贡献。
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Abstract:This article discusses the literary engagement with chronic crises as the prevailing condition of the early twenty-first century. Chronic crisis narration dislodges the narrative modes and epistemological frames of modern crisis scenarios: crisis no longer designates the experience of a decisive tipping point after a climactic build-up but rather an enduring state of extremity, requiring uninterrupted resilience. The chronic crisis novel experiments with anthropologically inflected modes of narration to articulate the subjective and social experience of precarity, exhaustion, and the depletion of resources. However, by aesthetically reclaiming precariousness as the domain of relationality and pleasure, this genre also explores the idea of the “good-enough life” as a viable alternative to the middle-class expectation of the good life.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.3138/seminar.58.3.intro
Maria Roca Lizarazu, Simone Pfleger
In the introduction to the GLQ special issue Queer Inhumanisms, Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen critically interrogate how an emphasis on the “human as standard form” results in the unjust dehumanization of queer subjects. They underscore that while “liberal-humanist values” (188) promise inclusion, the very notion of the human is bound up with norms of behaviour, ability, health, rights, citizenship status, and political and social agency, which result in the dehu manization and regulation of some bodies as well as practices of exclusion and marginalization. As such, the human is a relational category that emerges from its engagement with those deemed inhuman; or, rather, the inhuman functions as the foil to produce and bolster a particular notion of humanness with its very specific configuration—that of the white, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, Christian, educated subject of a certain socio-economic and citizenship status— through various discursive-material practices . The need to complicate the human as the focus of analysis and the “ground of any epistemology” (Luciano and Chen 189) and theorize alternative ways of being and relating has been highlighted in recent years by critical race, queer, disability, and animal studies scholars such as Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Mel Y. Chen, Eunjung Kim, Dana Luciano, Jasbir K. Puar, and Dinesh Wadiwel, to name just a few. Their various critiques of the human and the Enlightenment project of humanism link humanness to productivity, autonomy, and the ability to manifest normative bodily features and identity markers. Indeed, the normatively human operates as the point of reference against which bodies are measured; it constantly produces subjects and ways of being in the world that do not fit this mold and are cast as disposable, replaceable, and unworthy of care. That the human is inextricably tied to, even predicated on, various dehu manized and inhuman others also affects our ways of knowing, thinking, and articulating, which are steeped in the very thing that scholars and activists are trying to break free from, such as “ the protocols of human knowledge produc tion” ( Muñoz, “Sense” 209). This means that there is a looming danger in the critiques of reproducing the very categories that many thinkers are trying to
在GLQ特刊《酷儿非人道主义》的导言中，Dana Luciano和Mel Y. Chen批判性地质疑了强调“人类作为标准形式”是如何导致酷儿主体不公正的非人性化的。他们强调，虽然"自由-人道主义价值观"(188)承诺包容，但人的概念本身与行为、能力、健康、权利、公民身份以及政治和社会机构的规范是联系在一起的，这导致一些机构的非人性化和管制，以及排斥和边缘化的做法。因此，人类是一个关系范畴，从与那些被视为非人的人的接触中出现;或者，更确切地说，非人的功能是作为一种衬托物，通过各种话语材料实践，以其非常具体的配置——白人、顺性、异性恋、健全、基督徒、受过一定社会经济和公民地位的受过教育的主体——来产生和支持一种特定的人性概念。将人类复杂化作为分析的焦点和“任何认识论的基础”(Luciano and Chen 189)，并将存在和联系的替代方式理论化的需求，近年来被一些批判种族、酷儿、残疾和动物研究的学者所强调，这些学者如Rosi Braidotti、Judith Butler、Mel Y. Chen、Eunjung Kim、Dana Luciano、Jasbir K. Puar和Dinesh Wadiwel，仅举几例。他们对人类的各种批判和人文主义的启蒙工程将人性与生产力、自主性以及表现规范的身体特征和身份标记的能力联系起来。事实上，规范的人类作为衡量身体的参照点;它不断地制造出不符合这个模式的主体和存在方式，它们被塑造成一次性的、可替代的、不值得关心的。人类与各种非人性化和非人性的他人有着千丝万缕的联系，甚至以此为前提，这也影响了我们认识、思考和表达的方式，这些方式沉浸在学者和活动家试图摆脱的东西中，比如“人类知识生产的协议”(Muñoz，“Sense”209)。这意味着，在对许多思想家试图复制的分类的批评中，有一种迫在眉睫的危险
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