Asian Fusion; New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9781787073555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Caroline Rupprecht

Opis

A series of dialogues are created between Asian-German authors, such as Yoko Tawada, Pham Thi Hoài, and Anna Kim, with an earlier generation of German-speaking authors and artists whose works engaged with «Asia,» including W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, and Joseph Beuys. Asian-German voices are here shown to reshape the German cultural landscape.

Recenzje

«Asian Fusion is a remarkably original book that delineates an exciting new field: Asian- German cultural studies. Using an innovative call-and-response model, Rupprecht records the responses of contemporary Asian-German writers to the 'calls' made by a preceding generation of German artists and writers (Joseph Beuys, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald) toward Asia. A compelling and authoritative work!» (John Zilcosky, author of Kafka's Travels and Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis and the End of Alterity)

«In Asian Fusion, Caroline Rupprecht ingeniously pairs three postwar German authors who engaged with Asia with three award-winning Asian-German writers, constructing compelling intergenerational dialogues between Sebald and Tawada, Weiss and Pham, and Beuys and Kim. Taking the Shoah as a point of departure and a point of reference, the book shoulders the intellectual as well as ethical responsibilities of addressing racism in Germany. A great read and a major contribution to Asian-German Studies!» (Qinna Shen, Chair and Associate Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College)

«... Rupprecht takes an important ethical stance and aims to create a discursive space and theoretical framework for racism against East Asians ... Rupprecht's call for recognizing that German minorities - Jews, Blacks, or Asians - have 'the right to belong' is especially urgent at a moment when the New Right is on the rise.» (Qinna Shen, Monatshefte, Vol. 113, No. 2, 2021)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Call-and-Response - Parallels - Silkworms and Concentration Camps: W. G. Sebald's Die Ringe des Saturn and Austerlitz - Writing Emptiness: Yoko Tawada's The Bath, Das nackte Auge and «Flucht des Monds» - Convergences - From Auschwitz to Vietnam: Peter Weiss's Viet Nam Diskurs and Notizen zum kulturellen Leben der Demokratischen Republik Viet Nam - Translating Silences: Pham Thi Hoài's Die Kristallbotin and Sonntagsmenü - Discordances - Shamanic Performances: Joseph Beuys's Der Eurasier, Eurasia Siberian Symphony, and Auschwitz Demonstration - Shamanic Spaces: Anna Kim's Anatomie einer Nacht and Die grosse Heimkehr - «Asian Fusion».

O autorze

Caroline Rupprecht is Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Womb Fantasies: Subjective Architectures in Postmodern Literature, Cinema, and Art (2013) and Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (2006) and the translator, with an introduction, of Unica Zürn's 1969 novella Dark Spring (2000).