ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-2002
Jonas Ross Kjærgård
{"title":"Silencing the Present? Decolonization, Nationalization, and Natural Right(s) in Émeric Bergeaud’s Stella (1859)","authors":"Jonas Ross Kjærgård","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-2002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Émeric Bergeaud wrote Stella (1859), his novelistic account of the Haitian revolution (1791–1804), at a most turbulent moment in Haitian history. Faustin Soulouque rose to power in the late 1840 s and soon began to pursue his political opponents with violent means. Coming from a “Boyerist” background, Bergeaud fled the country in 1848 and settled in St. Thomas where he worked on his novel while his health deteriorated. Despite his precarious life in exile, Bergeaud remained silent about Soulouque in his decisively political novel Stella. As Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Madeleine Dobie, and others have shown, the history of slavery has often been silenced in literature and public debate, but what does it mean for Bergeaud to silence the present and focus on the past? I argue that Stella in fact makes a significant intervention in the debates about mid-19th-century Haiti. Instead of confronting Soulouque directly, however, Bergeaud addresses a pair of structural problems of which I consider Soulouque and his policy emblematic expressions: decolonization and nationalization. Most existing readings have emphasized Bergeaud’s reflections on history, but in this contextualized analysis, I show that Bergeaud looks not only to the past but also and importantly to nature and natural right(s) philosophy in his novelistic search for a way forward for Haiti.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"37 1","pages":"181 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81804231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.18239/arcadia.30.2020
Fanuel Hanán Díaz
{"title":"Sombras, censuras y tabús en los libros infantiles","authors":"Fanuel Hanán Díaz","doi":"10.18239/arcadia.30.2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18239/arcadia.30.2020","url":null,"abstract":"Como todos los productos culturales, la literatura infantil no está exenta de ideología. Los libros infantiles pueden ser poderosos instrumentos para ejercer el control. Por ello, muchos de ellos han querido mostrar un mundo sumiso y aséptico. Desde la racionalidad de la cultura, los tabús instalan un eje de dominación y poder; desde lo moral y lo religioso agrupan a una serie de actos condenables públicamente; desde lo pedagógico acogen temas que no deben se tratados para ciertos receptores. Sin embargo, la literatura posee sus propios recursos para representar la realidad, sin ellos hubiese sido imposible adentrarse en la fascinante y contradictoria esencia de la que estamos compuestos los seres humanos.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83505048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0007
Irina Wutsdorff
{"title":"Utopische Potenziale des Idyllischen in der Narration: Ivan Gončarovs Oblomovka und Jan Nerudas Kleinseite","authors":"Irina Wutsdorff","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The relationship between the idyll and narration has a paradoxical nature: In its state of complete harmony, the idyll is beyond any change or development. In terms of narration, however, this poses a fundamental difficulty. This was a problem already recognized in Schiller’s reflections on the idyll in the context of the philosophy of history, expounded in his essay On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (Über naive und sentimentale Dichtung). By depicting a golden age, i. e., a state that can only ever be appreciated in retrospect, the idyll, according to Schiller, inspires, above all, the pursuit of such a state of harmony in the present. In identification of the idyllic consciousness, representation can only take the form of endangerment by external threats, and in certain cases, the successful overcoming of these threats. Conversely, it is only possible to show the idyll as a state not yet realized, still to be pursued from a perspective outside of the idyllic consciousness. Consequently, the device of a distant, masterful narrator is instrumental to the nuanced depiction of both Prague’s Lesser Quarter (Malá Strana or Kleinseite) in Jan Neruda’s eponymous tales and the Oblomovka country estate in Ivan Gončarov’s novel Oblomov. In both instances, the narrative allows for a critique of the premature realization of pseudo-idyll. Furthermore, the idyll is put into perspective so that beyond signifying loss, its potential to inspire visions of the future is summoned.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"11 1","pages":"44 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84670885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0014
Alexander Waszynski
{"title":"Nils Plath: Hier und anderswo. Zum Stellenlesen bei Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno und Jacques Derrida. Berlin: Kadmos, 2017. 560 S.","authors":"Alexander Waszynski","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"78 1","pages":"176 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88405526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0005
Raphaela Tkotzyk
{"title":"Die musikalische Ambivalenz in Kleists Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik: Urteil über den Katholizismus oder Hilfsmittel zur Glaubensfindung?","authors":"Raphaela Tkotzyk","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Heinrich von Kleist’s attitude toward the Catholic Church has produced two major positions in modern German literature. On one hand, there are those who understand Kleist simply as a church critic; on the other hand, there are those who consider Kleist’s attitude – and his alleged Kantian crisis and departure from all scholars – as supportive towards the Church. Die heilige Cäcilie precisely exemplifies this debate, because, depending on the way one reads the narrative, the text can be interpreted as an endorsement or as a criticism of the Church. However, the text can be read quite differently for yet, a third, alternative understanding: the element of music involved in Die heilige Cäcilie undermines a concrete definition of its position as well as a concrete statement regarding Kleist’s religious creed. Thereby, it serves as a tool to help the reader to make decisions in terms of religious beliefs and doctrines.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"15 1","pages":"25 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78769473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0004
G. Snel
{"title":"Levantinizing the Balkans: Outlines for a Literary Geography of Encounters","authors":"G. Snel","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The debate on the ‘where’ of the Balkans seem to be stuck between national paradigms and a nostalgia for cosmopolitanism. This essay explores an alternative spatial mapping of the region, opening it up to the wider Eastern-Mediterranean, in particular the fuzzy and contested notion of the Levant. First, it looks into various instances of ‘the Levant’ and ‘the Levantine,’ ranging from Turkish and Greek to Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian examples – with a particular focus on the latter. Secondly, by then ‘levantinizing’ the Balkans, in an explicit analogy to Édouard Glissant’s understanding of ‘creolization’ in the Caribbean, it attempts to draw the outlines of a geography of encounters. Finally, it offers a sample of what such a geography might look like and what its literary-historical repercussions might be, bringing together the work of Semezdin Mehmedinović and Etel Adnan.","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"4 1","pages":"64 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87223494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0010
Johanna-Charlotte Horst
{"title":"Hannah Arendt: The Modern Challenge to Tradition: Fragmente eines Buchs. Hg. Barbara Hahn und James McFarland. Unter Mitarbeit von Ingo Kieslich und Ingeborg Nordmann. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018. 923 S.","authors":"Johanna-Charlotte Horst","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Zu den Philosophen, so Hannah Arendt in dem berühmten Gespräch mit Günter Gaus von 1964, zähle sie auf keinen Fall. Ihr Beruf, wenn man denn davon überhaupt sprechen könne, sei politische Theorie. In The Modern Challenge to Tradition: Fragmente eines Buchs, dem 6. Band der im Wallstein Verlag erscheinenden Kritischen Gesamtausgabe, geht es im Wesentlichen um das Verhältnis dieser beiden Denkformen. Politische Theorie, so ließe sich zuspitzen, muss dann intellektuell Verantwortung übernehmen, wenn die Philosophie angesichts der Herausforderungen der Moderne verstummt. Die Erfahrung totalitärer Herrschaftsformen fordert ein ‚Denken ohne Geländer‘, das – um eine Formulierung Franz Rosenzweigs aufzunehmen – im Getriebe des historischen Fortgangs mitund nicht nachdenkt. Ausdruck dieses epistemologischen Programms ist Arendts beharrliche Arbeit an der konkreten Form ihres Denkens. Dessen Prozesshaftigkeit liegt in den hier zum großen Teil noch im Rohzustand befindlichen Texten offen zutage. Der Titel The Modern Challenge to Tradition: Fragmente eines Buchs zeigt bereits an, was dabei auf dem Spiel steht. Der Traditionsbruch in der Moderne, so lässt sich der Doppelpunkt deuten, verunmöglicht die Geschlossenheit eines Werks. Der Versuch, die Genealogie dieses Formverlusts in eine abgerundete Form zu bringen, scheitert konsequenterweise. So bestehen die drei Teile des Bandes – „The Great Tradition“, „The Modern Challenge to Tradition“, „Eine Art Buch – A book that can’t be written“ – aus immer wieder ansetzenden Entwürfen, in denen sich Formulierungen verflüssigen und neu konstellieren. Durch das Nebeneinander","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"3 1","pages":"142 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89234080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARCADIAPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0012
C. Mitterer
{"title":"Bastian Reinert und Clemens Götze, Hgg.: Elfriede Jelinek und Thomas Bernhard. Intertextualität, Korrelationen, Korrespondenzen. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 247 S.","authors":"C. Mitterer","doi":"10.1515/arcadia-2020-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2020-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Zwischen Elfriede Jelinek und Thomas Bernhard bestehen mannigfache Relationen. Umso erstaunlicher mutet es an, dass bei der Fülle an Sekundärliteratur, die zur Nobelpreisträgerin und ihrem fünfzehn Jahre älteren Kollegen vorliegt, die dezidierten Verbindungslinien noch unzureichend erforscht sind. Von diesem Desiderat gehen die Herausgeber Bastian Reinert und Clemens Götze in ihrem Sammelband aus. Ein besonderes Verdienst kommt dem Vorwort zu, das die Sonderstellung von Jelinek und Bernhard im gesellschaftlichen, literarischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs auf knapp vier Seiten übersichtlich darlegt (1–4) und die thematische Ausrichtung der insgesamt sechszehn Sammelbandbeiträge skiz-","PeriodicalId":43010,"journal":{"name":"ARCADIA","volume":"21 1","pages":"169 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78909648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}