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Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America / Jamie H. Trnka.

Author/creator Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene)
Other author/creatorWalsh, Donald Devenish, 1903-1980.
Included WorkNeruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 Caminando alrededor. English.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Descriptionxii, 318 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; volume 16
Partial 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.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 298-312) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015002572
ISBN9783110376227 (alk. paper)

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