Monika Albrecht - Böcker

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another:the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialismthe growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studiesthe still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West IndiesPostcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another:the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialismthe growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studiesthe still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West IndiesPostcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.

Das Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns hat an Aktualität nichts eingebüßt. Noch immer ist die Auseinandersetzung mit der "Krankheit unserer Zeit" ein viel diskutiertes Thema in Literatur und Feuilleton. Das Handbuch bündelt alle Informationen zu Leben, Werk und Rezeptionsgeschichte. Erstmals steht nicht allein die Lyrik im Vordergrund, sondern auch Bachmanns Prosa, darunter Hörspiele, Libretti u. v. m. Ein aufschluss- und faktenreiches Handbuch für Literaturwissenschaftler und Bachmann-Fans.

Ingeborg Bachmann ist heute eine moderne Klassikerin der deutschsprachigen Literatur und eine Schlüsselfigur im literarischen Leben der Nachkriegsjahrzehnte, deren Wirkung bis in die Gegenwart ausstrahlt. Auf der Grundlage des aktuellen Forschungsstands gibt das Handbuch einen umfassenden Überblick über Bachmanns Leben, die einzelnen Werke und Werkgruppen, deren Rezeption und Wirkung sowie die literatur- und kulturgeschichtlichen Kontexte des Werks (Zeitgeschichte, Philosophie, Psychologie, literarische Bezüge, kultur-, musik- und medienwissenschaftliche Perspektiven). Es wendet sich sowohl an LiteraturwissenschaftlerInnen und Studierende als auch an die interessierte Leserschaft. Für die Neuauflage wurden die Kapitel aus der ersten Auflage des Handbuchs (2002) gründlich aktualisiert und durch neue Beiträge ergänzt.