Herta Muller (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and Aesthetics
Redaktion: Brandt, Bettina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two languages-German and Romanian-inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Müller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," Müller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceausescu regime.Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Müller's writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Müller's Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Müller's texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Müller's poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention.One of the first books in English to thoroughly examine Müller's writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496209306
• Artikelnr.: 59619262

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