Tag: Archive
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From Farbe Bekennen to Showing Our Colors. Re-reading German Postcolonial Studies
Following the transatlantic traces of Farbe Bekennen (1986), Rita Maricocchi recontextualizes the anthology’s status in German postcolonial studies.
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A Medium of Transatlanticism: Newspapers in the Weimar Era
Jonathan Wipplinger on new tools, resources and reasons to study print media with regard to transatlanticism.
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Provenance. Approaches to a Transatlantic Material History of Literature
Focusing on provenance as an epistemic category, Caroline Jessen suggests to examine our hidden, yet persisting commitment to the notion of a national literature as an example of challenging the narratives implicit to our current understanding of archives.
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Transatlantic Archives and the Chronotope
Transatlantic archival research can be both a reason for utmost scholarly enthusiasm and a reason to question the carbon footprint of our work. An essay by Tobias Boes
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Francis Daniel Pastorius: German-American Literature in the Early Transatlantic
Using F. D. Pastorius as an example, Hartmut Hombrecher explains why transatlantic research should always focus on the reciprocal nature of cultural transfer.
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Black Transatlantic Literary Studies and the Case of James Baldwin
Gianna Zocco on the role of imagology, intertextuality, and literary archives within Black transatlantic literary studies.
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Blickwechsel: On Transatlantic German Studies, from a Brazilian Perspective
Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier discusses the potentials and challenges of a transatlantic approach to German Studies — not only in Brazil.
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Transatlantic Archives and Transatlantic Literary Studies
Tim Sommer describes the appeals and challenges of dealing with the diasporic dispersal of literary papers.
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Locating Books as Transatlantic Commodities
Corinna Norrick-Rühl underlines the potential of Book Studies to offer insights into the research area.