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Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections

Martha Kuhlman & José Alaniz (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461665270

Bring­ing togeth­er the work of an array of North Amer­i­can and Euro­pean schol­ars, this col­lec­tion high­lights a pre­vi­ous­ly unex­am­ined area with­in glob­al comics stud­ies. It analy­ses comics from coun­tries for­mer­ly behind the Iron Cur­tain like East Ger­many, Poland, Czech Repub­lic, Hun­gary, Roma­nia, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, giv­en their shared his­to­ry of WWII and com­mu­nism. In addi­tion to sit­u­at­ing these graph­ic nar­ra­tives in their nation­al and sub­na­tion­al con­texts, Comics of the New Europe pays par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to transna­tion­al con­nec­tions along the com­mon themes of nos­tal­gia, mem­oir, and life under com­mu­nism.

The essays offer insights into a new gen­er­a­tion of Euro­pean car­toon­ists that looks for­ward, inspired and informed by tra­di­tions from Fran­co-Bel­gian and Amer­i­can comics, and back, as they use the medi­um of comics to reex­am­ine and reeval­u­ate not only their nation­al pasts and respec­tive comics tra­di­tions but also their own post-1989 iden­ti­ties and expe­ri­ences.

Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place

Sarah Jack­son
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350259638

Lit­er­a­ture and the Tele­phone explores the ways that the tele­phone taps into the oper­a­tions of read­ing and writ­ing, open­ing up our under­stand­ing of how, where and why lit­er­ary com­mu­ni­ca­tion takes place.

Address­ing the telephone’s com­plex, mul­ti­ple and mutat­ing func­tions, and draw­ing on recent work by writ­ers and thinkers includ­ing Sara Ahmed, Sta­cy Alaimo, Judith But­ler, Nicholas Royle and Eyal Weiz­man, this open access book con­sid­ers the lin­guis­tic, tech­ni­cal and con­cep­tu­al dis­rup­tions of the lit­er­ary tele­phone as well as the poet­ic and polit­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of the exchange.

Focus­ing on the tele­phon­ic effects of post-war writ­ing by authors such as Mourid Bargh­outi, Car­o­line Bergvall, Tom Raworth, Muriel Spark, Ali Smith and Rita Wong, Sarah Jack­son pro­pos­es that the uncan­ny log­ic of the tele­phone, and its capac­i­ty for order­ing and dis­or­der­ing the text, speaks to some of the most urgent con­cerns of our era.

Exam­in­ing top­ics rang­ing from sur­veil­lance and migra­tion to war­fare and elec­tron­ic waste, Jack­son argues that the lit­er­ary tele­phone offers new ways of con­ceiv­ing eth­i­cal and cre­ative tech­no­log­i­cal futures, as well as dif­fer­ent modes of read­ing, writ­ing and lis­ten­ing across cul­tures.

Religion und ihr Konflikt mit Magie im Fantasy-Genre

Peter Math­e­is
https://doi.org/10.57813/20221207–142310‑0

Im Fan­ta­sy-Genre hat Reli­gion eine mar­ginale Posi­tion: Wenn sie über­haupt eine Rolle spielt, ist es meist eine bösar­tige, oft im Kon­flikt mit ein­er dom­i­nan­ten Magie. Das ste­ht im Gegen­satz zu den Rollen, die bei­de in der realen Geschichte spie­len: Hier ist Magie meist in der mar­ginalen Posi­tion gegenüber der Reli­gion, vor allem im europäis­chen Mit­te­lal­ter, aus dem Fan­ta­sy so viel Inspi­ra­tion zieht. Um dies zu ver­ste­hen, müssen die schwieri­gen begrif­flichen Abgren­zun­gen und die wider­sprüch­liche Geschichte zwis­chen Reli­gion und Magie durch­blickt wer­den. Anhand beispiel­hafter Werke – J.R.R. Tolkiens Sil­mar­il­lion, Ter­ry Pratch­etts Small Gods, Ursu­la K. Le Guins Earth­sea-Rei­he und Mar­i­on Zim­mer Bradleys The Mists of Aval­on – zeigt sich, wie Kon­flik­te um Reli­gion und Magie in Fan­ta­sy-Wel­ten reale Kon­flik­te um die Legit­imierung von Macht aus­tra­gen. Fan­ta­sy ermöglicht eine Welt­flucht zu ein­er anderen Macht- und Wel­tord­nung, die von der Ver­gan­gen­heit inspiri­ert, aber nicht an sie gebun­den ist.