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Book SynopsisWith this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives. The contributions offer [1] a reconsideration and update of the field’s methods, genres, and theoretical frames; [2] trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; [3] insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; [4] intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; [5] investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Perspectives on Imagology Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco Part 1: Reconsidering the European Conception of Imagology and Its Peripheries: Methods, Genres, Theoretical Frames 1 Enmity, Identity, Discourse: Imagology and the State Joep Leerssen 2 Axiological Foundations of Imagology Davor Dukić 3 Toward a Production-Oriented Imagology Ulrike Kristina Köhler 4 Imagology and the Analysis of Identity Discourses in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Travel Writing by Charles Dickens and Karl Philipp Moritz Sandra Vlasta Part 2: Imagology beyond and across the European Nation-State: Trans-/Postnational, Migratory, and Marginalized Perspectives 5 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Transnational: Images and Stereotypes in Yadé Kara’s Selam Berlin and Paul Beatty’s Slumberland Gianna Zocco 6 Immigration and Imagology, or Nationalisms Abandoned Manfred Beller 7 Transnationalizing National Characterization: Meta-Images and the Centre-Periphery Dynamics in Spain and the South Slavic Region Josip Kešić Part 3: Of Orient/Occident and Other Geopolitical Dichotomies: Imagology and Its Systems of Cultural Mappings 8 Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Postimperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur Johanna Chovanec 9 European Ethnotypes in Chinese Words: The Translation and Negotiation of Some Western National Characters in Early Nineteenth-Century China Federica Casalin 10 A Study on The Travel Journal and Pictures: Li Danlin’s Image of Foreign Lands and Cultures Zhu Wenjun 11 “I have gotten used to the whites, but I tremble before the blacks!”: Fashioning Colonial Subjectivities in The Brave Rabbit in Africa Kristína Kállay 12 The Myth of the Orient in Flaubert’s Voyage en Égypte and Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza Walter Wagner Part 4: Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes 13 Categories, Stereotypes, Images, and Intersectionality Martina Thiele 14 Nationality as Intersectional Storytelling: Inventing the Parisienne Maria Weilandt 15 A “Jezebel” or a Further “Madwoman in the Attic” in Caroline Lee Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern Bride Karin Andersson 16 Images of Bosniac Women in Contemporary Antiwar Films: An Intersectional Analysis of Victim Feminism in Grbavica and In the Land of Blood and Honey Ivana Drmić Part 5: Imagology Intermedial: Beyond the Literary Text 17 National Images in Visual Narratives: The (Re)Presentation of National Characters in the Flemish Comic Series Suske en Wiske Christine Hermann 18 #JeSuisAmatrice: Identity through a Landscape of Wounds; Toward a Geo-Imagology Daniel Brandlechner 19 Singing the Dutch: An Extended Imagological Approach to Constructions of “Dutchness” in Late Eighteenth-Century Political Songs Renée Vulto 20 “… the first singer, a born German”: Notions of Nationality as a Field of Conflict in Operatic Music of the 1770s Andrea Horz 21 Blurring Stereotypes: “Aus dem Leben eines Tonkünstlers” as a Medium of Italian Musical Character around 1800 Carolin Krahn Index
