{"title":"Reframing German Cultural Studies: Displacement, Temporality, and Minority Discourses","authors":"Christina Kraenzle","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"93-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139592657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigration, poetry, and translation between Syria and Germany: Adel Karasholi","authors":"Russell Berman","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12409","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12409","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The work of Syrian-German poet Adel Karasholi exemplifies key vectors of literature in the context of migration, in particular the tension between nostalgia and assimilation. Karasholi's case is distinctive insofar as he lived between two dictatorships, Syria and the German Democratic Republic, and his poetry testifies to processes of ideological accommodation, integration into GDR literary networks, and identity-political hybridization. A Brechtian aesthetic of engagement and a Marxist discourse of progress coexist with the problematics of immigration and cultural difference. In the early 1990s, Karasholi began to invoke previously rejected orientalist and mystic-religious tropes as he entered the multicultural public sphere of unified Germany, but in his translations of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (2004) he reverted to the secular modernization sensibility of his GDR years. One of these translations (“In Jerusalem”) is examined closely to reveal Karasholi's strategic choices and subtle differences from the Darwish original.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"40-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139595792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"„Mein Gorilla hat ’ne Villa im Zoo.“ Die Weintraubs Syncopators zwischen Berlin und Australien By Albrecht Dümling, ConBrio. 2022. pp. 232. € 24,90 (paperback)","authors":"Cornelius Partsch","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"113-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jane Eyre in German Lands: The Import of Romance, 1848–1918 By Lynne Tatlock, Bloomsbury. 2022. pp. 277. $108.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Beth Ann Muellner","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"107-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139604507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The divine and the open text: Five steps for reading Hölderlin's Homburger Folioheft","authors":"Jakob Helmut Deibl","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12407","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12407","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article deals with Hölderlin's <i>Homburger Folioheft</i>. It elaborates on the thesis that the question of God or the divine can contribute to exploring both the richness of the poet's extensive manuscript, which fans out in many textual stages, and its fragmentary form. I argue that, despite its fragile textual form, the collection must be perceived as a unity and that reading it means oscillating between the textual stages without privileging the last version. I show that the reference to the divine often can be found at the core of the poet's vast changes to the text. The absence and return of the divine introduces a transformative dynamic into the text, a dynamic about which Hölderlin himself reflects in some passages.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"6-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping Black Europe: Monuments, Markers and Memories By Natasha A. Kelly and Olive Vassell (Eds.), transcript. 2023. pp. 200. $35 (paperback)","authors":"Peter A. Ogunniran","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"101-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139605927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought By S. E. Jackson, Camden House. 2021. 246 pp. $105 (hardcover) $29.95 (ebook or pdf)","authors":"Alwin Franke","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12415","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"117-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139608052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth By Daniel DiMassa, Bucknell UP. 2022. pp. 242. $150 (hardback), $35.95 (paperback and e-book)","authors":"Katherine Arens","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12412","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"110-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139614743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precarity in Burhan Qurbani's Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)","authors":"Franziska Wolf","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When Burhan Qurbani's adaptation of Döblin's modernist classic <i>Berlin Alexanderplatz</i> premiered in 2020, criticism included the allegation that Qurbani's protagonist Francis—a Black refugee from Guinea-Bissau stranded at the outskirts of present-day Berlin—does not resemble the novel's released prisoner and street vendor Franz Biberkopf. This article presents a comparative investigation of Qurbani's Francis and Döblin's Biberkopf. Drawing on Judith Butler's writing on precarity, grievability, and the quest for a “good life,” I consider how both Francis and Biberkopf face increased risk of injury, occupy a liminal space in society, and cannot fulfill their intention to be morally good while also achieving upward social mobility. Their failure is a direct consequence of their politically and socioeconomically precarious condition: Biberkopf belongs to the underclass of the <i>lumpenproletariat</i>, whereas Francis, as an undocumented immigrant, is exposed to neoliberal hyper-precarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"59-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139614142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women's Work in Germany around 1800 By Karin A. Wurst, Camden House. 2023. pp. 236. $99.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (ebook)","authors":"Julie Koser","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}