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Scope and content: "Revolutionary Subjects demonstrates that East and West German literary interests in Latin America coincided with debates about the political relevance of literature in the Cold War. Through a combination of close reading, contextual analysis, and careful theoretical work, Trnka examines textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, which, she argues, anticipated conceptual reorganizations of the world connoted by the transnational or the global" -- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America
• Chapter 2: The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana Inquiry
• Chapter 3: Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State
• Chapter 4: The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner Müller's The Task
• Chapter 5: A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's Adenauerplatz
• Chapter 6: The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity
• Appendix: "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh.

Author/Creator:

Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene) , author

Contributors:

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973

Walsh, Donald Devenish, 1903-1980 , translator

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Revolutionary subjects: German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America [by Trnka, J.H.]

Included Works:

Caminando alrededor [by Neruda, P.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America [by Trnka, J.H.] (Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]; xii, 318 pages; Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; volume 16 — ISBN 9783110376227)

Related Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies; volume 16

Subjects:

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus — Criticism and interpretation

Braun, Volker, 1939- — Criticism and interpretation

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995 — Criticism and interpretation

Delius, Friedrich Christian, 1943-2022 — Criticism and interpretation

German literature — 20th century — History and criticism

Politics in literature

Latin America — In literature

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Braun, Volker, 1939-

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995

Delius, Friedrich Christian, 1943-2022

1900-1999

German literature

Literature

Criticism and interpretation

Germany

Latin America

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PT405 .T695 2015eb

ISBNs:

9783110376227 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
9783110376555 (e-book)

OCLC Numbers:

907940997

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1713053 (source: MiAaPQ)
EBL1713053 (source: Au-PeEL)
ebr11049448 (source: CaPaEBR)
MIL807818 (source: CaONFJC)