Christian Kloeckner teaches North American literature and culture at the University of Bonn. His research interests include literature and political violence, (post-)modernist poetry, memorial culture, discourses of race and class, and the intersections of financialization, debt, and nostalgia in U.S. culture.

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• Terrorism in postmodern and neorealist American fiction – Maurice Blanchot – Paul Auster’s debt to Blanchot – Aesthetics of rupture and transgression – Relationship of writing, terror, freedom, and death – Power of literature – Alterity – Emmanuel Levinas – The sublime – Terrorism as spectacle in global consumer culture

Christian Kloeckner teaches North American literature and culture at the University of Bonn. His research interests include literature and political violence, (post-)modernist poetry, memorial culture, discourses of race and class, and the intersections of financialization, debt, and nostalgia in U.S. culture.

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• Terrorism in postmodern and neorealist American fiction – Maurice Blanchot – Paul Auster’s debt to Blanchot – Aesthetics of rupture and transgression – Relationship of writing, terror, freedom, and death – Power of literature – Alterity – Emmanuel Levinas – The sublime – Terrorism as spectacle in global consumer culture

Christian Kloeckner teaches North American literature and culture at the University of Bonn. His research interests include literature and political violence, (post-)modernist poetry, memorial culture, discourses of race and class, and the intersections of financialization, debt, and nostalgia in U.S. culture.

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• Terrorism in postmodern and neorealist American fiction – Maurice Blanchot – Paul Auster’s debt to Blanchot – Aesthetics of rupture and transgression – Relationship of writing, terror, freedom, and death – Power of literature – Alterity – Emmanuel Levinas – The sublime – Terrorism as spectacle in global consumer culture