{"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}
{"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}