Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America /

"Revolutionary Subjects demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Trnka examines textua...

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Main Author: Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene) (Author)
Other Authors: Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973, Walsh, Donald Devenish, 1903-1980 (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; volume 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America
  • Chapter 2: The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana Inquiry
  • Chapter 3: Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State
  • Chapter 4: The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner Müller's The Task
  • Chapter 5: A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's Adenauerplatz
  • Chapter 6: The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity
  • Appendix: "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh.