Neuerscheinung: The Postethnic Literary. Von Florian Sedlmeier
9. Dezember 2014
The Postethnic Literary
Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000
Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter Mouton 2014
(Buchreihe der Anglia, 48)
Zitation
The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form.
By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers. (Verlag)
Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier ist Juniorprofessor für Nordamerikanische Literatur an der Freien Universität Berlin. Von 2006 bis 2008 war er Mitglied des Graduiertenkollegs „Die Figur des Dritten“ an der Universität Konstanz, wo er an der vorliegenden Dissertation gearbeitet hat.
Der Exzellenzcluster „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“ hat das Erscheinen dieses Buches gefördert.