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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817698703321

Autore

Trnka Jamie H (Jamie Helene)

Titolo

Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America / / Jamie H. Trnka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-055303-1

3-11-037655-5

3-11-039288-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; volume 16

Classificazione

GN 1701

Altri autori (Persone)

NerudaPablo <1904-1973.>

Disciplina

830.9/3588

Soggetti

German literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics in literature

Latin America In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, which, she argues, anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global" --