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Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik

Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik

Volume 8 Issue 2

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Titelei

January 12, 2018
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Inhalt

January 12, 2018
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Editorial

January 12, 2018
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Zu diesem Themenheft und zur Interkulturalität der Böhmischen Länder

Renata Cornejo, Manfred Weinberg January 12, 2018
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The article provides as an introduction to the special issue ≫Diverse Concepts - Concepts of Diversity. On the theory of interculturality≪ an overview of the specific interculturality of the Czech Lands, showing the lack of concepts for their appropriate description. In the end, the contributions gathered in this special issue are briefly characterized.

Antikenrezeption als interkulturelles Phänomen

Eva Wiegmann January 12, 2018
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For the time being, research mostly ignores complex cross-cultural phenomena if they are not connected to the globalisation discourse. This contribution is meant to work against this one-sidedness and is dedicated to cross-cultural reference patters which are most of all of a literary-aesthetic and hermeneutics-theoretical nature. The focus is on the reception of antiquity which, since the aesthetic revolution of about 1800, can no longer be clearly considered the continuation of a line of tradition but, by way of a distancing attitude, becomes particularly interesting for a cross-cultural view.

Interkulturelle Metaphern Überlegungen zu ihrer Theoretisierung am Beispiel des Palimpsests

Julian Osthues January 12, 2018
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Cultural theory is full of metaphors. In intercultural German studies (›interkulturelle Germanistik‹), metaphors play an equally significant role in the treatment of cultural concepts. It may seem surprising, though, that their use has not been analyzed from an intercultural perspective yet. This article discusses the potential of metaphors for intercultural thinking, and describes how different theories (Bernhard Waldenfels, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha, Anil Bhatti and others) make use of them in their treatment of culture and identity. In particular, focus is given on the intercultural potentials provided by the palimpsest metaphor, which presents culture in its plurality, cross-border complexity and ambivalence.

Facetten des Vielfältigen in der Lyrik Interferenz und interkulturelle Literatur

Iulia-Karin Patrut, Matthias Bauer January 12, 2018
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The paper addresses the multi-layered architecture of poems and their inherent dialogism. Taking as examples poems by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Oskar Pastior, Yoko Tawada, and Uljana Wolf, Bachtin’s concept of dialogism, which originally referred to prose fiction, is scrutinized in order to establish a new understanding of poetry. Its potentials become evident when intercultural lyrics or poems cross-fading different social systems are considered.

Zwischen Projektion und Dekonstruktion Mediterranismus oder Vom Nutzen und Nachteil einer Denkfigur zur Erforschung des ›südlichen Blicks‹

Dieter Heimböckel January 12, 2018
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As a reaction to the postcolonial invention of the Mediterranean in the Anglo-American anthropology of the 1960’s and 1970’s and following Edward Said’s ›Orientalism‹, ›Mediterraneanism‹ serves as a concept for exploring the ›southern perspective‹ of scientists from the North. While initially, in the present article, the term was intended to be used in order to capture the intercultural perspective of literature on the South, this was precluded by epistemological and practical reasons. The article discusses these issues by critically examining the background and foundations of the notion in question, by comparing its different conceptualisations depending on the discipline and provenance of their authors, and by analysing the possibilities of its application in Intercultural Studies.

Anerkennung und Interkulturalität Überlegungen mit Blick auf ›Haiti‹ bei Hegel und Alexander Kluge

Herbert Uerlings January 12, 2018
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›Recognition‹ is one of the key concepts of Interculturality. It is, however, a highly controversial concept. Whereas scholars like Honneth, Taylor and Habermas emphasize ›social integration via recognition‹, others, especially post-colonialists and poststrucuturalists, think of ›submission via recognition‹. The current discussion focuses on Hegel who was the first to think of ›recognition‹ as a basic principle of personal identity, social order and global history. The article deals with a significant current debate about the meaning of the Haitian Revolution in Hegel’s philosophy. What, in Hegel’s work, is the meaning of the Revolution or the ›fight for recognition‹ led by African slaves in Saint-Domingue? What is the relationship between Hegel’s philosophy and globalization? It will be shown that, for systematic reasons, Hegel could neither ignore nor accept the Haitian Revolution. This ought to have implications for current debates on ›recognition‹ and interculturality. In this context Alexander Kluge’s fragment of prose Jeden Morgen liest Hegel Zeitung (Every morning Hegel reads the papers) (2012) will be analyzed as a critical literary response to Hegel.

Interkulturalität und Wissensproduktion

Simo January 12, 2018
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Intra-cultural interactions constitute a situation full of tensions wherein subject’s position and positioning are driven by self-evaluation and the expectation of recognition. These tensions gain in intensity and complexity in intercultural interactions. This makes non dialogic production of knowledge on others, and especially on other cultures, problematic. That is why the notion of cultural difference has been coined to put the emphasis not on the knowledge produced on self or on the other by one of the partners in the interaction but on the dialectical process of generating this knowledge which is therefore to be analyzed as the expression of a space of differences of differences.

Kultur, Ritual, Tabu – und das Zeichen des Schleiers

Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich January 12, 2018
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Following the refugee crisis 2015 and the terror attacks by Islamists in Europe, there was a media debate in Germany on the yashmaks of female Muslims in Summer 2016, called the burqa-debate. Taking this debate as a starting point, the chapter discusses rituals and taboos of religious communities in a secular society. Proceeding from a sociological definition of rituals, the paper then attempts to present a terminological framework for the analysis of taboos in intercultural communication and applies the critical discussion of stereotypical assumptions to the current debate in secular countries in Europe on women wearing a burqa in public. The example serves for dealing with the problem of asymmetry in taboo discourse.

Interkulturalität im Universitätsbetrieb

Bożena Chołuj January 12, 2018
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The text is about the problem of implementing interculturality not only in teaching and learning but also in operating international / intercultural joint degree programs. In all sectors and on all levels in academic practice there is an astonishing lack of experience with »the other«. Even some theories on cultural differences are rather perpetuating stereotypical thinking than helping to understand each other. The main thesis of the article means that one has to take the examination about experience(s) to aim for better intercultural competences in academic practice and for bridging the gap between scientific knowledge about culture and our daily behavior while ruling intercultural study programs.

Kirschfeste Über die Annexion Europas an Böhmen anläßlich des 50. Jahrestages des Münchner Abkommens

Libuše Moníková January 12, 2018
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Sprachnomaden Statt einer Migrationsliteratur: Literarische Entdeckungsreisen und transkulturelles Schreiben

Johannes Preschl January 12, 2018
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Florian Krobb: Vorkoloniale Afrika-Penetrationen. Diskursive Vorstöße ins »Herz des großen Continents« in der deutschen Reiseliteratur (ca. 1850-1890)

Heiko Ullrich January 12, 2018
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Swati Acharya (Hg.): Sa’adat Hasan Manto. Chronist des ungeteilten Irrsinns der Teilung Indiens

Thomas Keller January 12, 2018
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Wiebke Sievers (Hg.): Grenzüberschreitungen. Ein literatursoziologischer Blick auf die lange Geschichte von Literatur und Migration

Raluca Rădulescu January 12, 2018
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GiG im Gespräch 2017 / 2

January 12, 2018
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Autorinnen und Autoren

January 12, 2018
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Hinweise für Autorinnen und Autoren

January 12, 2018
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About this journal

Interculturalism has established itself as a leading and innovative category of research both in national and international German language and literature studies. Thus the "Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik" (ZiG) has become a well-known medium in this discipline. It picks up current questions in the field of German literature-, cultural- and language studies and wants to contribute to compile the different tendencies and trends in the researching of interculturalism as well as elaborate its theoretica conditions. Since the research paradigm can not be regarded from individual disciplinary
perspectives anymore the ZiG considers itself to be an interdisciplinary and open institution grounded in the international scientific context. Hence the ZiG is the ideal periodical for international literary- and cultural scholars working on current and innovative questions of German linguistics and literature.
The ZiG appears twice a year. A peer review procedure guarantees the quality of the published essays.

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