New Perspectives on Imagology

Katharina Edtstadler, Dr. phil. (2020), University of Vienna, is a literary scholar whose main research interests focus on the interdisciplinary field of Medical Humanities. She has published two monographs and several articles on the topic.Sandra Folie, Dr. phil. (2020), University of Vienna, is an assistant professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at that university. She has published a monograph, Beyond Ethnic Chick Lit (2022), and several articles on contemporary global women’s writing.Gianna Zocco, Dr. phil. (2013), University of Vienna, is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin. She has published two monographs and several articles on African-American literature in relation to Germany, windows in literature, intertextuality, literature and spatial discourses.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: New Perspectives on ImagologyKatharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna ZoccoPart 1: Reconsidering the European Conception of Imagology and Its Peripheries: Methods, Genres, Theoretical Frames1 Enmity, Identity, Discourse: Imagology and the StateJoep Leerssen2 Axiological Foundations of ImagologyDavor Dukić3 Toward a Production-Oriented ImagologyUlrike Kristina Köhler4 Imagology and the Analysis of Identity Discourses in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Travel Writing by Charles Dickens and Karl Philipp MoritzSandra VlastaPart 2: Imagology beyond and across the European Nation-State: Trans-/Postnational, Migratory, and Marginalized Perspectives5 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Transnational: Images and Stereotypes in Yadé Kara’s Selam Berlin and Paul Beatty’s SlumberlandGianna Zocco6 Immigration and Imagology, or Nationalisms AbandonedManfred Beller7 Transnationalizing National Characterization: Meta-Images and the Centre-Periphery Dynamics in Spain and the South Slavic RegionJosip KešićPart 3: Of Orient/Occident and Other Geopolitical Dichotomies: Imagology and Its Systems of Cultural Mappings8 Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Postimperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel HuzurJohanna Chovanec9 European Ethnotypes in Chinese Words: The Translation and Negotiation of Some Western National Characters in Early Nineteenth-Century ChinaFederica Casalin10 A Study on The Travel Journal and Pictures: Li Danlin’s Image of Foreign Lands and CulturesZhu Wenjun11 “I have gotten used to the whites, but I tremble before the blacks!”: Fashioning Colonial Subjectivities in The Brave Rabbit in AfricaKristína Kállay12 The Myth of the Orient in Flaubert’s Voyage en Égypte and Bachmann’s Das Buch FranzaWalter WagnerPart 4: Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes13 Categories, Stereotypes, Images, and IntersectionalityMartina Thiele14 Nationality as Intersectional Storytelling: Inventing the ParisienneMaria Weilandt15 A “Jezebel” or a Further “Madwoman in the Attic” in Caroline Lee Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern BrideKarin Andersson16 Images of Bosniac Women in Contemporary Antiwar Films: An Intersectional Analysis of Victim Feminism in Grbavica and In the Land of Blood and HoneyIvana DrmićPart 5: Imagology Intermedial: Beyond the Literary Text17 National Images in Visual Narratives: The (Re)Presentation of National Characters in the Flemish Comic Series Suske en WiskeChristine Hermann18 #JeSuisAmatrice: Identity through a Landscape of Wounds; Toward a Geo-ImagologyDaniel Brandlechner19 Singing the Dutch: An Extended Imagological Approach to Constructions of “Dutchness” in Late Eighteenth-Century Political SongsRenée Vulto20 “… the first singer, a born German”: Notions of Nationality as a Field of Conflict in Operatic Music of the 1770sAndrea Horz21 Blurring Stereotypes: “Aus dem Leben eines Tonkünstlers” as a Medium of Italian Musical Character around 1800Carolin KrahnIndex