Große Werke der Literatur XVII

• 26. April 2023
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dichtung und Wahrheit.
  Mathias Mayer (Augsburg)
• 10. Mai 2023
  Louise Erdrich, Der Nachtwächter.
  Katja Sarkowsky (Augsburg) 
• 14. Juni 2023
  Alois, Hotschnig, Der Silberfuchs meiner Mutter.
  Stephanie Waldow (Augsburg)
• 28. Juni 2023
  Kaneshiro Kazuki. GO!
  Maren Haufs-Brusberg (Düsseldorf)
• 12. Juli 2023
  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Freibeuterschriften.
  Peter A. Kraus (Augsburg)
• 19. Juli 2023
  Irmtraud Morgner, Amanda: Ein Hexenroman.
  Susanna Layh (Augsburg)

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Reading the Social in American Studies

Herausgegeben von Astrid Franke, Stefanie Mueller und Katja Sarkowsky

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

ISBN  (Festeinband): 978-3-030-93550-4

Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature—understood broadly—to uncover a microlevel of the social. Its temporal scope ranges from the early 19th to the 21st century, providing a historical dimension that is otherwise often missing from studies on the conjunction of literature and sociology. The contributors’ approaches include genre reflections as well as close readings, theoretical discussions of crucial sociological terms, and literary observations backed up by empirical sociological studies. The book will familiarize international readers with ideas on the social from both sides of the Atlantic, including scholarship of such figures as John Dewey, Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Reading the Social in American Studies

Große Werke der Literatur XV

Herausgegeben von Günter Butzer, Katja Sarkowsky

und Hubert Zapf

A.Francke Verlag, 2020

ISBN (kartoniert): 978-3-7720-8705-9

Der Band setzt die Reihe von Interpretationen großer Werke der Literatur fort, die aus einer Ringvorlesung an der Universität Augsburg hervorgegangen sind. Er versammelt Aufsätze zur deutschen, US-amerikanischen, estnischen, italienischen, karibischen und französischen Literatur und umspannt einen Zeitraum vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Enthalten sind Beiträge von Klaus Wolf (Dietmar von Aist, Minnelieder), Rotraud v. Kulessa/Daria Perocco (Terracina, Discorsi sopra le prime stanze de‘ canti d‘Orlando furioso), Dieter Schulz (Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods), Hans Vilmar Geppert (Fontane, Cécile; Irrungen, Wirrungen; Stine), Till Kuhnle (Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit), Günter Butzer/Cornelia Wörmann (Schwitters, Ursonate), Helmut Koopmann (Hesse, Das Glasperlenspiel), Heide Ziegler (Th. Mann, Doktor Faustus), Hubert Zapf (Miller, Death of a Salesman), Joachim Jacob (Bachmann, Enigma), Frank Mardaus (Luik, Der siebte Friedensfrühling), Annika McPherson (Walcott, Omeros), Eva Matthes (Herrndorf, Tschick) und Dennis Mahoney (Hummel, Motherland).
 

Große Werke der Literatur XV

Storied Citizenship. Imagining the Citizen in American Literature.

Herausgegeben von Katja Sarkowsky und Ina Batzke.

Reihe: Amerikastudien/American Studies 65.4

Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020

This special issue on "Storied citizenship" provides an overview of important issues and approaches that have shaped “citizenship” as an analytical category in American Literary Studies in the past fifteen years. Moverover, and particularly by focusing on the (largely neglected) systematic distinction between “citizenship” and “the citizen,” the individual contributions highlight the necessity of scrutinizing how literature imagines and narrates particular kinds of citizens and how such images tie in with, counter, or modify long-standing normative models of the citizen — in short, how literature “stories” citizenship and the citizen as potentially both normative and emancipatory concepts of political belonging and participation.

Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg

Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts

Herausgegeben von Katja Sarkowsky und Mark Stein

Reihe: Cross Cultures

Brill/Rodopi, 2020

ISBN (Festeinband): 978-90-04-42805-8

Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts reflects that critiques of ideological formations occur within intersecting social, political, and cultural configurations where each position is in itself ‘ideological’ – and subject to asymmetrical power relations. Postcolonialism has become an object of critique as ideology, but postcolonial studies’ highly diversified engagement with ideology remains a strong focus that exceeds Ideologiekritik. Fourteen contributors from North America, Africa, and Europe focus (I) on the complex relation between postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, and conceptualizations of ideology, (II) on ideological formations that manifest themselves in very specific postcolonial contexts, highlighting the potential continuities between colonial and postcolonial ideology, and (III) on further expanding and complicating the nexus of postcolonial ideology, from veiling as both ideological practice and individual resistance to home as ideological construct; from palimpsestic readings of colonial photography to aesthetics as ideology.

Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts