Özdamar's Autobiographical Fictions: Trans-National Identity and Literary Form
Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's novels Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei · hat zwei Turen · aus einer kam ich rein · aus der anderen ging ich raus (1992) and Die Brucke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), are formally hybrid: as fictional autobiographies they mix invention and history; as first-person narrations they produce the divided figure of the narrator/protagonist; in mixing German with transliterated Turkish or Turkish-German patois and fragments of many other languages they are linguistically hybrid. In conveying a complex sense of transformative interchange between culturally heterogeneous countries under the impact of social and political change, both novels combat fixed national or cultural stereotypes. The first novel pervasively mixes social and magical realism in evoking tensions within Turkey between tradition and modernisation, whereas the second novel more sharply juxtaposes a fleeting magical-realist utopian vision with a mildly satirised picture of student protest in Berlin and a much grimmer account of unresolved ethnic conflict and political turmoil in Turkey.
Escrituras de minorías, heterogeneidad y traducción
El estudio de las escrituras de minorias, de la llamada literatura poscolonial asi como el de la narrativa de la diaspora ha cobrado gran relevancia en el marco de los estudios culturales y literarios. Mas recientemente, en el ambito de los estudios del discurso y de la traductologia, surge la necesidad de examinar este tipo de escrituras que se revelan como discursos explicitamente heterogeneos y marcadamente fronterizos. Escrituras de minorias, heterogeneidad y traduccion aborda distintos aspectos que atanen a la construccion discursivo-enunciativa de un corpus de textos literarios plurilingue, conformado por originales y (auto) traducciones, los cuales pertenecen al ambito de las escrituras de minorias. En efecto, el examen de la operacion de desterritorializacion, propia de estas escrituras, constituye un interes central de este volumen colectivo, cuyos capitulos exploran el problema de la construccion de la identidad linguistico-cultural, las diversas manifestaciones de la heterogeneidad enunciativa como signo de la presencia del otro en el propio discurso, los procesos de traduccion y negociacion culturales y la traduccion, no solo entendida como la operacion que media entre dos textos escritos en lenguas diferentes sino como estrategia de escritura interna al texto literario.
Communist History: An Annual Bibliography (2005)
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of communist history. For the USA coverage is extensive. For the rest of the Anglophone world coverage is selective, while coverage for the rest of the world is more selective still. Coverage of the former and presently communist countries is largely limited to works dealing with the Communist parties of those countries. Anti-communism is covered selectively, with somewhat more emphasis on its interaction with communism than its nature as a movement/ideology per se. Coverage of related topics, i.e. the labor movement, Marxism, other strains of radicalism, etc., is highly selective and limited to items directly relevant to communism. For coverage of current reportage (newspapers, news weeklies, journals of opinion, Internet/WWW discussion lists, etc.) see the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism and the Historians of American Communism Discussion List (h-hoac@h-net.msu.edu). The Bibliography is organized into seven sections, listed below. Sections 1–5 are form and genre based (monographs, serials, etc.), while sections 6 and 7 are format based (sound and visual, electronic). Entries are arranged alphabetically within each section. Where the number of entries warrants it, a section is divided into USA and Other. There is no index. Please be aware that most citations for items in electronic format are listed under their appropriate form/genre, i.e. articles in electronic serials are listed under serials. Section 7 (Internet, WWW, etc.) only contains citations for items in forms and genres irreducibly unique to the electronic environment, i.e. discussion lists (and postings and threads therein) and for those web sites and other electronic resources not subsumed under categories 1–7. Items cited are from the calendar year in the title of the Bibliography, with two exceptions, Internet/WWW items, where publication/creation date information is often unavailable or indeterminate, and older items not cited