Description
What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By combining theoretical, literary, and analytical texts, the contributors offer methodological impulses and reflect on the possibilities and limitations of affect theory in cultural studies.
About the Author
Silvia Schultermandl (she/her), born in 1977, is a professor and chair of American studies at Universitat Munster. She researches various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies. Jana Aresin (she/her), born in 1992, is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. She researches the cultural and media history of the early Cold War (1945-1960) in comparative perspective, with a regional focus on the United States and Japan. In 2020-21 she was Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunity at Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. Si Sophie Pages Whybrew (she/her, they/them), born in 1987, is a senior scientist for gender and diversity studies at Kunst-Universitat Graz. They completed their dissertation on "Affective Trans Worldmaking in Contemporary Science Fiction" at Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. From 2020-21, they were an Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies in the research project "Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings." Dijana Simic (she/her), born in 1988, is a lecturer of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literary and cultural studies in the Department of Slavic Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. Currently, she is completing her PhD project on gender, sexuality, and intimate counterpublics in recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian prose. Her teaching and research focus on migration, gender, and memory studies in the former Yugoslav context.
Reviews
"Ein uberzeugendes Buch, das anhand vielfaltiger Beispiele auch eine breite Argumentation uber die Notwendigkeit von Gegenoeffentlichkeiten entfaltet. Dabei verliert es marginalisierte und benachteiligte gesellschaftliche Gruppen als soziale Gemeinschaften ebenso wenig aus dem Blick wie die Singularitaten individueller Mitglieder und ihrer spezifischen Erfahrungen von Ablehnung oder Stereotypisierung." Enoe Lopes Pontes, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2024)
Book Information
ISBN 9783837661415
Author Silvia Schultermandl
Format Paperback
Page Count 238
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 1mm
About the Author
Silvia Schultermandl (she/her), born in 1977, is a professor and chair of American studies at Universitat Munster. She researches various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies. Jana Aresin (she/her), born in 1992, is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. She researches the cultural and media history of the early Cold War (1945-1960) in comparative perspective, with a regional focus on the United States and Japan. In 2020-21 she was Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunity at Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. Si Sophie Pages Whybrew (she/her, they/them), born in 1987, is a senior scientist for gender and diversity studies at Kunst-Universitat Graz. They completed their dissertation on "Affective Trans Worldmaking in Contemporary Science Fiction" at Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. From 2020-21, they were an Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies in the research project "Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings." Dijana Simic (she/her), born in 1988, is a lecturer of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literary and cultural studies in the Department of Slavic Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz. Currently, she is completing her PhD project on gender, sexuality, and intimate counterpublics in recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian prose. Her teaching and research focus on migration, gender, and memory studies in the former Yugoslav context.
Reviews
"Ein uberzeugendes Buch, das anhand vielfaltiger Beispiele auch eine breite Argumentation uber die Notwendigkeit von Gegenoeffentlichkeiten entfaltet. Dabei verliert es marginalisierte und benachteiligte gesellschaftliche Gruppen als soziale Gemeinschaften ebenso wenig aus dem Blick wie die Singularitaten individueller Mitglieder und ihrer spezifischen Erfahrungen von Ablehnung oder Stereotypisierung." Enoe Lopes Pontes, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2024)
Book Information
ISBN 9783837661415
Author Silvia Schultermandl
Format Paperback
Page Count 238
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 1mm
