Katharina Donn

The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, this book addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367222512
• ISBN-10: 0367222515
• Artikelnr.: 59796123

Autorenporträt

Dr. Katharina Donn is a teacher, lecturer and author in 20th century and contemporary literature. She specializes in memory and trauma studies, ecocriticism, feminism, and the politics of literature. Her first monograph A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11 (Routledge, 2016) explores the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. Katharina has taught at the Universität Augsburg in Germany and the University of Texas at Austin in the US, and has held research fellowships at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards a Diatopian Politics of Literature
1. Unmappable Gestures: Politics of Literature in the Age of Donald
Trump
2. Uncontainable Bodies: Posthuman Biopolitics
3. Transversing the Event: Beyond the Trauma of Terrorism
4. Emergence, Submergence, Insurgence: Politics on Liquid Ground
5. Unravelling the Nation State: Openwork Lives in Migrant Graphic
Narratives