Herta Müller

Politics and Aesthetics
Herausgeber: Brandt, Bettina; Glajar, Valentina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the first books in English to thoroughly examine Muller's writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.

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Explores Herta MÃ llerâ s writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features MÃ llerâ s Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner. Parts 2 and 3 address the political and poetical aspects of MÃ llerâ s texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of MÃ llerâ s poetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780803245105
• ISBN-10: 0803245106
• Artikelnr.: 38022469

Autorenporträt

Bettina Brandt taught at MIT, Columbia University, and Montclair State before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. She has published on contemporary women writers such as Emine Özdamar and Yoko Tawada. Valentina Glajar is a professor of German at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is the coauthor of several books, including Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, and is the cotranslator of Müller's Traveling on One Leg.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
      Bettina Brandt and Valentina Glajar
Part 1. Life, Writing, and Betrayal
1. Herta Müller: Writing and Betrayal
      Allan Stoekl
2. Nobel Lecture: Every Word Knows Something of a Vicious Circle
      Herta Müller
3. Collage Poems
      Herta Müller
4. Interview with Ernest Wichner
      Valentina Glajar and Bettina Brandt
Part 2. Totalitarianism, Autofiction, Memory
5. When Dictatorships Fail to Deprive of Dignity: Herta Müller's "Romanian"
Period
      Cristina Petrescu
6. "Die akute Einsamkeit des Menschen": Herta Müller's Herztier
      Brigid Haines
7. Facts, Fiction, Autofiction, and Surfiction in Herta Müller's Work
      Paola Bozzi
8. From Fact to Fiction: Herta Müller's Atemschaukel
      Olivia Spiridon
Part 3. Müller's Aesthetics of Experimentation
9. "Wir können höchstens mit dem, was wir sehen, etwas zusammenstellen":
Herta Müller's Collages
      Beverley Driver Eddy
10. In Transit: Transnational Trajectories and Mobility in Herta Müller's
Recent Writings
      Monika Moyrer
11. Osmoses: Müller's Things, Bodies, and Spaces
      Anja Johannsen
12. Herta Müller's Art of Reverberation: Sound in the Collage Books Die
blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen and Este sau nu este Ion
      Arina Rotaru
13. Accumulating Histories: Temporality in Herta Müller's "Einmal
anfassen--zweimal loslassen"
      Katrina Nousek
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index