Alexandra Ganser – författare

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, piratesasked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, piratesasked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.

This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility studies into conversation with the maritime and oceanic humanities. The contributors examine the interface between the traditional Eurocentric imagination of the sea as romantic and metaphorical, and the materiality of the sea as a deathbed for racialized and illegalized humans as well as non-human populations

This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility studies into conversation with the maritime and oceanic humanities. The contributors examine the interface between the traditional Eurocentric imagination of the sea as romantic and metaphorical, and the materiality of the sea as a deathbed for racialized and illegalized humans as well as non-human populations

Die Mobilitätsforschung erhält durch die hier präsentierten Arbeiten neue Perspektiven. Der zweisprachige Band versammelt kritische Studien zu Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft im Feld der interdisziplinären Mobilitätsforschung. Die kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Inhalte spiegeln die Arbeit der Forschungsplattform "Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften" an der Universität Wien. Ihre Themen umfassen Migration, Flucht, Geschlecht und Mobilität, Mobilität und Medialität, mobile Kollektive, Bild- und Protestbewegungen sowie Übersetzung und Transfer. Zusammen mit einer Einleitung zur Konzeptualisierung und Bedeutung von Mobilität und mit einem Beitrag von Mimi Sheller über die Zukünfte ungleicher Mobilitäten, der aktuelle Erfahrungen von Immobilisierung und Quarantäne vorausdenkt, leistet der Band einen innovativen Beitrag zu dem hochaktuellen Forschungsfeld der Mobility Studies.Mit Beiträgen und unter Mitarbeit von: Syntia Hasenöhrl, Roman Kabelik, Barbara Maly-Bowie, Petra Dannecker, Birgit Sauer, Alev Çakir, Katharina Fritsch, Birgit Englert, Franz Eybl, Viktoria Metschl, Annegret Pelz, Alexandra Ganser, Kirsten Rüther, Marianne Windsperger, Philipp Wagner, Christian Wimplinger, Antje Wischmann, Mimi ShellerAus rechtlichen Gründen sind die Abbildungen im Beitrag "Album und Picknickdecke: Stabilisierende Medien und ephemere Formen mobiler Kollektivbildung" von Annegret Pelz und der Beitrag "Zukünfte ungleicher Mobilität" von Mimi Sheller nur in der Printausgabe enthalten.This book collects critical observations in the context of the history, current state, and future of the fledgling interdisciplinary field of mobility studies. The twelve essays in cultural studies and the social sciences reflect work conducted at the Research Platform "Mobile Cultures and Societies," hosted by the University of Vienna, Austria. Topics include migration, flight, gendered mobilities, mobility and mediality, mobile collectives, moving images, protest movements as well as translation and transfer. Together with an introduction on the conceptualization and significance of mobility studies and an essay by Mimi Sheller on the futures of uneven mobilities, which anticipates current experiences of immobilization and quarantine, the articles present original contributions to this topical field of research.

This volume pays homage to Monika Seidl, a key figure of cultural studies at the University of Vienna''s Department of English and American Studies and spotlights her many achievements in the field. The Festschrift on the occasion of her retirement reflects on cultural studies as a discipline, its history and possible futures, aspects of care as in crisis and as practiced by Monika Seidl, and engages with her academic work in articles of different styles by contributors including Magdalena Berger, Lawrence Grossberg, Sabine Harrer, Roman Horak, Christian Huck, Thomas Kühn, Elisabeth Lechner and Judith Kohlenberger, Barbara Maly-Bowie, Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer, Anette Pankratz, Annegret Pelz, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Julia Pühringer, Susanne Reichl, Ranthild Salzer and John Storey. It includes a preface by Alexandra Ganser.