Andrea Gremels – författare

Competing Memories focuses on the politics of remembering enslavement, emancipation and indentureship in Caribbean contexts. The contributions explore constructions and representations of plural and divergent memories across academic disciplines. As understandings of ‘history’ and ‘memory’ may vary, the volume addresses the different and strategic ways these concepts are used within and in relation to the Caribbean. It highlights how historical narratives and cultures of memory are implemented, removed, contested and remodeled in monuments, art, historical archives, literature, film and other kinds of representation all over the Caribbean, its diasporas and in former colonizing countries. With its focus on cultural memory studies, it provides new impulses to slavery and dependency studies. It also contributes to a global debate aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of memory formation in the context of colonial violence and trauma. It invites readers to reflect on the power dynamics involved in the processes of remembering, forgetting, memorizing, recollecting and commemorating.

Keine andere Revolution hat so viel Hoffnungen geweckt und enttäuscht wie die kubanische. Allein die Tatsache, dass sich das Castro-Regime trotz innerer und äußerer Widerständeein halbes Jahrhundert halten konnte, wirft viele Fragen auf. Grund genug, sich mit der problematischen und widersprüchlichen Situation auf Kuba auseinanderzusetzen und eine Revision der kubanischen Revolution vorzunehmen, die bis heute anderen lateinamerikanischen Staaten als Modell dient. Unter dem Motto der revis(it)ierten Revolution bietet dieses Buch eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme, in der Historiker, Politologen, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler und kubanische Schriftsteller aus interdisziplinärer, transkultureller und polilogischer Sicht die Debatte um die kubanische Revolution bereichern.

Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of world literature in a multipolar world of globalized modernity. The volume challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”: as a field of variously criss-crossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders.The collection presents individual case studies from a variety of language traditions that focus on particular literary relationships and practices across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe as well as new fictional, poetical, and theoretical conceptions of world literature in order to broaden our understanding of the multilateral entanglements within a widening communicative network that shape our globalized world.