{"title":"The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage By Muriel Cormican and Jennifer Marston William (Eds.), Camden House. 2021. pp. 232. $105 (hardcover)","authors":"Olivia Landry","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12424","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"272-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140681104","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":"From harmful ‘cures’ to acceptance: Reclaiming care through queer-feminist refusal in Yael Inokai's Ein simpler Eingriff (2022)","authors":"Holly Yanacek","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gequ.12419","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Swiss author Yael Inokai's novel <i>Ein simpler Eingriff</i> (2022) explores the various meanings and associations of care and caregiving. The novel demonstrates a particular sensitivity to the challenges of care work in nursing contexts and to the relationship between care and harm. This article draws on approaches from feminist care ethics, queer studies, and the politics of refusal to show how Inokai's text can be read as a novel of lesbian development that depicts its protagonist's journey from naïve hope for a cure to awareness of the complexity of care and, simultaneously, from shame to acceptance of her queer identity. Through acts of refusal, Inokai's novel decouples care from notions of a “cure” linked to heteronormative patriarchal power. It thereby creates space for a queer-feminist ethics of care that is attuned to the needs of others, minimizes harm, and emphasizes relationality and acceptance.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 2","pages":"169-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140735180","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":"“Stories one tells in dark times”: Fabulation, fugitivity, and futurity in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst","authors":"Maria Roca Lizarazu","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article engages with aesthetic acts of experimentation in Olivia Wenzel's <i>1000 Serpentinen Angst</i>. Building on recent scholarship on the politics of aesthetics in Wenzel's text, I argue that these experiments are intertwined with key themes in the book, particularly issues of racialization and of Black (im-)possibility in present-day Germany. In this context, my article focuses on a largely overlooked aspect of Wenzel's text, namely its surreal, fantastical, and speculative elements. Drawing on Tavia Nyong'o and Saidiya Hartman's notion of “(critical) fabulation,” I propose that Wenzel's writing mobilizes fantastic, imaginative, and speculative elements to unsettle oppressive realities and realisms in favor of alternative modes of world- and future-making. Inspired by Tina M. Campt's work, I conceptualize these re-makings as “fugitive” and quotidian strategies, developed in response to a broken world, which still have the potential to generate new infrastructures for relationality and futurity.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"75-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139744932","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":"The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism By Samuel Frederick, Cornell University Press. 2021. pp. 330. $125 (hardcover), $34.95 (paperback)","authors":"Jasmin Köhler","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 1","pages":"121-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139745073","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":"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}