{"title":"Plants, Places, and Power: Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film By Maria Stehle, Camden House. 2023. pp. 186. $99.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (e-book)","authors":"Doris McGonagill","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12432","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"278-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140663969","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":"Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World By Beate I. Allert, Christopher R. Clason, Niall A. Peach, and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (Eds.), Purdue University Press. 2023. pp. 282. $49.99 (paperback, ebook, PDF), $99.99 (hardcover)","authors":"Elizabeth Millán Brusslan","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12429","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"281-284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140664194","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":"Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin By Bettina Stoetzer, Duke University Press. 2022. pp. 352. $28.95 (paperback)","authors":"Rebecca Jordan","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"275-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140665683","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":"Assembly and Its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought: The Inexhaustible Gathering By Robert E. Mottram and Christopher R. Clason (Eds.), Liverpool University Press. 2022. pp. 240. $130.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Bryan Norton","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12427","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"288-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140667058","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":"Queerness, Affekte und Eigensinn in Grimmelshausens Courasche (1670)","authors":"Alrik Daldrup","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12420","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ausgehend von der Überlegung, dass Grimmelshausens <i>Courasche</i> (1670) trotz einer konservativen Botschaft ein epistemisch subversives Sujet bietet, analysiert der Beitrag den Roman mithilfe von Sara Ahmeds queerer Affekttheorie. Grimmelshausens Protagonistin geht einen bösen Weg, der sie weit von den vorgeschriebenen Pfaden der christlichen Weltordnung abbringt, ihr jedoch auch eine kreative Politik der Verweigerung ermöglicht, etwas anderes sehen, spüren und erschaffen zu können. Courasche kann ihre hässlichen Gefühle nicht beherrschen, was dazu führt, dass sie die Räume, Objekte und Sprechweisen der Weltordnung auf eine queere Weise nutzt. Ebenso queer ist die Slapstick-Ästhetik des Romans, die in Momenten affektiver Entgleisung zum Tragen kommt. Courasche zensiert sich nicht selbst, um der Dominanzgesellschaft anzugehören, worauf diese mit disziplinierender Gewalt reagiert, damit Anständigkeit wiederhergestellt ist. Doch Courasche leistet Widerstand gegen die voyeuristischen Blicke der anderen. Sie bewahrt sich Eigensinn, indem sie Bedeutungen produziert, deren Zeit noch nicht gekommen ist und die die Christenmenschen nicht verstehen.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"130-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676704","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":"Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses By Niklaus Largier, Stanford University Press. 2022. pp. 304. $28.00 (paperback)","authors":"Paul Bishop","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12428","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"291-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140674950","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":"Writing the Child: Fictions of Memory in German Postwar Literature By Susanne Baackmann, Peter Lang. 2022. pp. 228. $55 (paperback and ebook)","authors":"Debbie Pinfold","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12430","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"266-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140680163","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":"A Stage for Debate: The Political Significance of Vienna's Burgtheater, 1814–1867 By Martin Wagner, University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. 215. $70 (hardcover and ebook)","authors":"Peter Höyng","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12431","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"269-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140679137","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":"Skin sediments: Narrating memory in Kim de l'Horizon's Blutbuch (2022)","authors":"Theresa Sambruno Spannhoff","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12421","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kim de l'Horizon's <i>Blutbuch</i> contributes to the contemporary posthumanist discourse of the German-language literary landscape by developing an original way of narrating memory through transformative materialities. This article explores two forms of memory narration that de l'Horizon evokes and combines in their text resulting in a productive space of tension between the protagonist and their environment. On the one hand, the main character grasps narratives as layers of skin (<i>Gehäute</i>) that serve as a physical boundary of the figures in the text. On the other hand, de l'Horizon proposes a memory narrative that aims to permeate these skin boundaries to reconnect the human self with surrounding matter in a fluid, symbiotic way.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"150-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140679118","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":"German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond Testimony By Helen Finch, Camden House. 2023. pp. 218. $120.00 / £90.00 (hardcover), $29.95 / £24.99 (ebook)","authors":"Jessica Ortner","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12426","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"263-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140682161","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}