Thomas Carl Austenfeld Livres

Terrorism as a factor of public life has generated far-reaching and as yet underexplored questions about narrative and representation. Different textual forms can investigate both the symbolic and the performative character of terroristic acts. Diverse literary traditions, ranging from countries of Eastern and Western Europe to North America and the Middle East, bring their respective historical imaginations to bear on such representations. The essays collected in this volume join together in a transdisciplinary effort that seeks to further our understanding of the role of narrative practice in all its varieties in approaching the phenomenon of terrorism, whether historical or contemporaneous.

Writing American Women enwirft anhand von bekannten und noch weitgehend unbekannten Beispielen ein Portraet der komplexen gegenwaertigen Diskussion zur Literatur von und ueber nordamerikanische Schriftstellerinnen. Unter Beruecksichtigung von historischen, institutionellen und literarischen Fragestellungen beleuchten die hier gesammelten Beitraege das Thema der „schreibenden Frau“ sowie der ge- oder beschriebenen Frau. Von Mary Rowlandson ueber Lucy Larcom, Louisa May Alcott bis Kay Boyle und Lois-Ann Yamanaka werden Schriftstellerinnen aus fuenf Jahrhunderten gewuerdigt.

As poet, prose writer, and interpreter of Europe, Kay Boyle (1902-1992) made instrumental contributions to modernism in both her writing and her living. While other modernists declared the supremacy of aesthetics over politics, Boyle also made her art usable in the political arena when her democratic convictions required such a commitment. In this pragmatic gesture she defiantly stepped outside of the modernist coterie. Her consistent critical and creative engagement with her time calls for a fresh appreciation. Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century: New Essays seeks to reclaim Boyle for a new audience. Boyle's literary qualities, displayed throughout her voluminous production, stand side by side with her steadfastness as a democratic and critically engaged citizen. As author and woman, as witness and mother, she is making her way back into the ever-adjusting mainstream of American literature.