Chaos in the Contact Zone

Unpredictability, Improvisation and the Struggle for Control in Cultural Encounters
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3389-4
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 252 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Edition Kulturwissenschaft

Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are the main issues discussed in this volume. The contributions show that chaos and control are not mutually exclusive in the "contact zone" (Mary Louise Pratt); on the contrary, they stand in relation to each other – be it as a competence or as an interpretive scheme.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wodianka, Stephanie

Behrens, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Wodianka, Stephanie
Stephanie Wodianka (Prof. Dr. phil.), geb. 1971, ist Professorin für Französische und Italienische Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Rostock. Sie war Sprecherin des Rostocker Graduiertenkollegs 'Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs' und Gründungsmitglied des Rostocker Graduiertenkollegs 'Deutungsmacht'. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Mythentheorie und Mythenforschung, frühneuzeitliche Betrachtungsliteratur sowie das Verhältnis von Erzählen und Kunst in literarischen Texten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts.

Stephanie Wodianka, born in 1971, is Professor for French and Italian Literature at Rostock University. She was the spokesperson of the graduate school 'Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship' as well as of the university's Department 'Knowledge - Power - Transformation' and founding member of the current Rostock graduate school 'Hermeneutic Power'. Her research focuses on comparative perspectives of myth theory, memory cultures, early modern devotional literature as well as the relationship between literature and art in nineteenth-century literary texts.
Christoph Behrens teaches French and Italian literary studies at the University of Rostock. His main areas of research are the interrelation between aesthetic and sociocultural practices of love, gender and queer theories in (Romance) philology as well as the the interweaving of literature and the 'other arts'.