Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2095805
Philip Decker
The German corpus of films about Africa, or Afrikafilme, is almost as old as German cinema itself. German film-makers have long instrumentalized the African continent as a prop for national self-confidence, either through ‘jungle adventure’ movies telegraphing the sophistication of European technology and navigation, or through overt white savior films asserting a superior German race and culture. As much as the Afrikafilme function as vehicles for German bravado, however, they are also repositories of profound insecurity and self-doubt. This study introduces the concept of ‘white reassurance’ to describe a subgenre of Afrikafilm that addresses this more uncertain side of the German encounter with Africa. Rather than insisting on German dominance, as white savior films do, white reassurance narratives feature unsettled German protagonists who passively approach African peoples in hopes of receiving moral validation, praise, or comfort. The study examines four such Afrikafilme from the Weimar, East German and post-1990 cinematic traditions, dealing with four specific crises: decolonization, Holocaust guilt, the failures of socialism, and postmodern angst. Though each film reflects a distinct sociopolitical context, all four externalize insecurities to African settings in similar ways, betraying a persistent fantasy that Africa can provide relief, however vaguely conceived, from German disquiet.
{"title":"Screening White Reassurance: Insecurity and Redemption in Four German Africa Films","authors":"Philip Decker","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2095805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2095805","url":null,"abstract":"The German corpus of films about Africa, or Afrikafilme, is almost as old as German cinema itself. German film-makers have long instrumentalized the African continent as a prop for national self-confidence, either through ‘jungle adventure’ movies telegraphing the sophistication of European technology and navigation, or through overt white savior films asserting a superior German race and culture. As much as the Afrikafilme function as vehicles for German bravado, however, they are also repositories of profound insecurity and self-doubt. This study introduces the concept of ‘white reassurance’ to describe a subgenre of Afrikafilm that addresses this more uncertain side of the German encounter with Africa. Rather than insisting on German dominance, as white savior films do, white reassurance narratives feature unsettled German protagonists who passively approach African peoples in hopes of receiving moral validation, praise, or comfort. The study examines four such Afrikafilme from the Weimar, East German and post-1990 cinematic traditions, dealing with four specific crises: decolonization, Holocaust guilt, the failures of socialism, and postmodern angst. Though each film reflects a distinct sociopolitical context, all four externalize insecurities to African settings in similar ways, betraying a persistent fantasy that Africa can provide relief, however vaguely conceived, from German disquiet.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"161 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42949944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2066869
Ludwig Deringer
The second novel of Theodora Bauer (b. 1990) demonstrates the importance of historical awareness in contemporary Austrian literature and the significance of the ‘temporal turn’ in literary studies, time studies, and memory studies. Chikago is a Zeitroman in a double sense, referencing historical time and reflecting on time as such. Predicated on Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ewige Wiederkunft’, it turns a story of emigration and re-migration in the 1920s and 30s, the rise of Fascism, and of precarious lives into a parable for our own day.
{"title":"‘ … wie eine unregelmäßige Wiederholung der Vergangenheit’: Time and History in Theodora Bauer’s Novel Chikago (2017)","authors":"Ludwig Deringer","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066869","url":null,"abstract":"The second novel of Theodora Bauer (b. 1990) demonstrates the importance of historical awareness in contemporary Austrian literature and the significance of the ‘temporal turn’ in literary studies, time studies, and memory studies. Chikago is a Zeitroman in a double sense, referencing historical time and reflecting on time as such. Predicated on Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ewige Wiederkunft’, it turns a story of emigration and re-migration in the 1920s and 30s, the rise of Fascism, and of precarious lives into a parable for our own day.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"92 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41999769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2066860
H. Hahn
Böll’s famous novel seems in danger of being forgotten; this paper attempts to demonstrate its enduring topicality and relevance to the present day. It focuses on three themes: concern for humanity (Menschlichkeit), rejection of a capitalist market economy, and a re-evaluation of the concept of ‘wastefulness’, including racist and economic aspects. Set in Germany over half a century (1920–1971), Böll’s critique of power politics, socio-economic and religious predominance is still relevant today.
{"title":"Heinrich Böll heute: Ansichten zu seinem Roman Gruppenbild mit Dame","authors":"H. Hahn","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066860","url":null,"abstract":"Böll’s famous novel seems in danger of being forgotten; this paper attempts to demonstrate its enduring topicality and relevance to the present day. It focuses on three themes: concern for humanity (Menschlichkeit), rejection of a capitalist market economy, and a re-evaluation of the concept of ‘wastefulness’, including racist and economic aspects. Set in Germany over half a century (1920–1971), Böll’s critique of power politics, socio-economic and religious predominance is still relevant today.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"77 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46232550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2077594
J. Reed, H. Lähnemann
{"title":"Nigel F. Palmer","authors":"J. Reed, H. Lähnemann","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2077594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2077594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45395036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2065795
Nina Nowara-Matusik
This article analyses the divergent traditional stereotypes of Poland—the ‘Sarmatic’ and the ‘Messianic’—in Bettina von Arnim’s Gespräche mit Dämonen (1852). Her very positive view of Poland coincides with deep-rooted Polish self-images, but depoliticises them into something genuinely poetic.
本文分析了贝蒂娜·冯·阿尼姆(Bettina von Arnim)的《Gespräche mit Dämonen》(1852)中对波兰不同的传统刻板印象——“萨尔马蒂克”和“弥赛亚”。她对波兰非常积极的看法与根深蒂固的波兰人自我形象不谋而合，但将其去政治化，变成了真正诗意的东西。
{"title":"‘Polen! Herd des Märtyrtums Um Die Sünden der Welt!’ Polenbilder in Gespräche mit Dämonen von Bettina von Arnim","authors":"Nina Nowara-Matusik","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2065795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2065795","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the divergent traditional stereotypes of Poland—the ‘Sarmatic’ and the ‘Messianic’—in Bettina von Arnim’s Gespräche mit Dämonen (1852). Her very positive view of Poland coincides with deep-rooted Polish self-images, but depoliticises them into something genuinely poetic.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"33 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45085331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2066862
Roman Opiłowski
In times of the corona virus, social coexistence is changing in many spheres, including communication in the public space of cities. Communication reacted to interpersonal needs and expectations in multimodal texts with formal, content and functional design means. In this article, individual text types are classified to illustrate the functional spectrum of multimodal communication in the city. The qualitative analysis is based on photographed texts related to Corona from the LinguaSnappHamburg project (University of Hamburg). The approaches of Linguistic Landscapes, Urban Linguistics, Media Linguistic Landscapes and Semiotic Linguistics form an important pragmatic and theoretical background. They name relevant features and provide insights into city texts on which this study is based. Furthermore, views and characteristics of public texts before and during the pandemic are presented in order to develop a functional classification against this background. The classified text types include regulative, discursive, altruistic, social, declarative, and commercial texts, which sometimes have specific subtypes. They are discussed using relevant examples within the framework of multimodal form and content analysis. The text types and the analyses carried out capture a relevant section of communicative actions in the pandemic as well as social knowledge about the corona virus.
{"title":"Text und Stadt in der Pandemie. Zur funktionalen Klassifikation von öffentlichen Texten in der Coronakrise","authors":"Roman Opiłowski","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066862","url":null,"abstract":"In times of the corona virus, social coexistence is changing in many spheres, including communication in the public space of cities. Communication reacted to interpersonal needs and expectations in multimodal texts with formal, content and functional design means. In this article, individual text types are classified to illustrate the functional spectrum of multimodal communication in the city. The qualitative analysis is based on photographed texts related to Corona from the LinguaSnappHamburg project (University of Hamburg). The approaches of Linguistic Landscapes, Urban Linguistics, Media Linguistic Landscapes and Semiotic Linguistics form an important pragmatic and theoretical background. They name relevant features and provide insights into city texts on which this study is based. Furthermore, views and characteristics of public texts before and during the pandemic are presented in order to develop a functional classification against this background. The classified text types include regulative, discursive, altruistic, social, declarative, and commercial texts, which sometimes have specific subtypes. They are discussed using relevant examples within the framework of multimodal form and content analysis. The text types and the analyses carried out capture a relevant section of communicative actions in the pandemic as well as social knowledge about the corona virus.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"106 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47049963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2065107
Anna Linton
A Greek folio bible published in 1545, containing both Old and New Testaments, is testimony to the collaboration of two important figures: Philipp Melanchthon, author of the preface, and the Basel printer Johannes Herwagen. The volume’s interest for the historian of the book is enhanced by inscriptions on its endpapers from Melanchthon and other humanists and reformers (Georg Major, Joachim Camerarius, Caspar Cruciger, Johannes Stigel, Georg Sabinus, Paul Eber, and Hubert Languet). This article traces the history of the volume from its origins in Basel through its stay in Wittenberg to its current resting place in Jesus College Fellows’ Library, Oxford. It places it in the context of the upheavals of both the Schmalkaldic Wars and the English Civil Wars, considering the various networks in which the volume participates, and reproduces for the first time the inscriptions with translations.
{"title":"From Reformation Wittenberg to Civil War Oxford: A Humanist Bible in the Fellows’ Library of Jesus College, Oxford","authors":"Anna Linton","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2065107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2065107","url":null,"abstract":"A Greek folio bible published in 1545, containing both Old and New Testaments, is testimony to the collaboration of two important figures: Philipp Melanchthon, author of the preface, and the Basel printer Johannes Herwagen. The volume’s interest for the historian of the book is enhanced by inscriptions on its endpapers from Melanchthon and other humanists and reformers (Georg Major, Joachim Camerarius, Caspar Cruciger, Johannes Stigel, Georg Sabinus, Paul Eber, and Hubert Languet). This article traces the history of the volume from its origins in Basel through its stay in Wittenberg to its current resting place in Jesus College Fellows’ Library, Oxford. It places it in the context of the upheavals of both the Schmalkaldic Wars and the English Civil Wars, considering the various networks in which the volume participates, and reproduces for the first time the inscriptions with translations.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"3 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49293608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2022.2066867
A. Sobolewska
The article aims to interpret the psychoanalytical thought of Georg Groddeck (1866–1934) presented in his post-1918 literary works and essays. In 1917, Groddeck contacted Sigmund Freud and thereby entered German-language psychoanalytic circles. In 1921, he published a psychoanalytic novel titled Der Seelensucher. Ein psychoanalytischer Roman. Two years later, he followed it by The Book of the It. Psychoanalytic Letters to a Friend (Das Buch vom Es. Psychoanalytische Briefe an eine Freundin), which disputed Freud’s concept of the unconscious. This paper postulates that Groddeck cleared new paths for the psychoanalytic thought of that time and thus anticipated later theoretical propositions in gender studies and queer theory. It also sheds light on the modernist dimension of the German physician’s work, which can be found both in his experimental approach towards the languages of literature and medicine, and in his transformation of Freud’s theoretical concepts.
本文旨在解读格奥尔格·格罗迪克（1866-1934）在其1918年后的文学作品和散文中提出的精神分析思想。1917年，Groddeck接触了Sigmund Freud，从而进入了德语精神分析界。1921年，他出版了一部精神分析小说，名为《Der Seelensucher》。埃因精神分析学家罗曼。两年后，他又出版了《致朋友的精神分析信》（Das Buch vom Es.Psychoanalysitische Briefe an eine Freundin），对弗洛伊德的无意识概念提出了质疑。本文认为Groddeck为当时的精神分析思想开辟了新的道路，从而预见了后来在性别研究和酷儿理论中的理论命题。它还揭示了这位德国医生作品的现代主义维度，这可以从他对文学和医学语言的实验方法以及他对弗洛伊德理论概念的转变中找到。
{"title":"Freud’s Queer Fellow: Georg Groddeck Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Literary Modernism","authors":"A. Sobolewska","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066867","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to interpret the psychoanalytical thought of Georg Groddeck (1866–1934) presented in his post-1918 literary works and essays. In 1917, Groddeck contacted Sigmund Freud and thereby entered German-language psychoanalytic circles. In 1921, he published a psychoanalytic novel titled Der Seelensucher. Ein psychoanalytischer Roman. Two years later, he followed it by The Book of the It. Psychoanalytic Letters to a Friend (Das Buch vom Es. Psychoanalytische Briefe an eine Freundin), which disputed Freud’s concept of the unconscious. This paper postulates that Groddeck cleared new paths for the psychoanalytic thought of that time and thus anticipated later theoretical propositions in gender studies and queer theory. It also sheds light on the modernist dimension of the German physician’s work, which can be found both in his experimental approach towards the languages of literature and medicine, and in his transformation of Freud’s theoretical concepts.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"45 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48450550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2021.2021015
H. Lähnemann
{"title":"Introduction to Oxford German Studies 50","authors":"H. Lähnemann","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"365 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43354373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2021.2021021
T. J. Reed
{"title":"Geburt Einer Zeitschrift Aus Dem Geiste Des Archivs","authors":"T. J. Reed","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"380 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47534485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：