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  1. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Universität zu Köln,  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Energie und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die zentrale Prämisse des kulturwissenschaftlich und komparatistisch ausgerichteten, DFG-geförderten Forschungsnetzwerks Energie und Literatur ist, dass Energie und Literatur in einem produktiven, aber bisher unzureichend erforschten...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.01.2024
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Mythenschlüssel und Urkultur: Antiquarismus und Aitiologie im 19. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt befasst sich mit Universalmythologien des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts und ihrer Bedeutung für die Mythenexegese der späteren Folkloristen und Anthropologen, denen das gesammelte und zu mythologischen Systemen verdichtete Material im...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism and 5 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Generationengerechtigkeit neu verhandeln: Ein Vergleich von Generationenkrisen in Anglophoner Literatur und Film vom 20.-21. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Idee der ‚Generationengerechtigkeit’ ist zu einem der Schlüsselbegriffe des 21. Jahrhunderts geworden und bezieht sich heute meist auf die Rechte zukünftiger Generationen auf eine intakte Umwelt und eine stabile Gesellschaftsordnung. Während sich...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 5 more
    Created on: 07.01.2022
  4. Category: Projects
    Parasiten. Literatur- und wissensgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu einer Mensch-Tier-Figuration im langen 19. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht die Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Parasiten vom ausgehenden 18. bis zum beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Heuristisch unterscheidet es dabei zwei Phasen: eine ‚organologische‘ Phase, in welcher der Parasitismus als die...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Postcolonial studies,  Narratology and 5 more
    Created on: 01.10.2021
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität zu Köln
    Neuperspektivierungen nachkolonialer Theorie: Über Geschichte und Erkenntnis in der brasilianischen Literaturwissenschaft
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In diesem kulturhistorisch angelegten komparatistischen Forschungsprojekt soll der Prozess der literaturwissenschaftlichen Theoriebildung im brasilianischen nachkolonialen Kontext im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert aus einem fachübergreifenden Standpunkt...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 24.09.2021
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project's key question asks how structures of coloniality are inherent to COVID-19 narratives, and how their biopolitical mechanisms relate to early colonial accounts of disease. As a key result, the project will provide a rich set of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi und die Grenzen von Kunst unter postkolonialen Bedingungen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Verbindung zwischen dem Philosophen F. H. Jacobi und der politischen Theoretikerin Hannah Arendt mag auf den ersten Blick überraschen. Im Kern des Denkens beider liegt aber die Trias Person , Beginn und Handlung . Das Projekt will...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 15.03.2021
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Colonised Citizens
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colonized Citizens is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . The project focuses on colonial literature in Belgium and Germany, both ‘late participants’ in the European...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Hybrid literature, hybrid agency: the status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this project I investigate the status of literary artifacts in Edward Said’s theory and reading practice and his correlating conceptualization of agency. Previous scholars have identified an irreconcilable tension in Said’s oeuvre between concepts...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Portuguese Colonial Empire and Urban Popular Culture: Comparing Visions from the Metropolis and the Colonies (1945-1974)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Empires are spaces of circulation of people and goods between colonies and their metropolitan centres, but they are also spaces of global circulation. A variety of cultural forms were circulated within the space of the Portuguese empire as well as...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Colonial Residue: Dismantling the Colonial Legacy in Postcolonial Environments
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Adopting the breadth of the term ‘environment’ outlined in the 2018-2020 ERRANS environ/s Fellowship, and being attentive to its focus on how environments can urge the questioning of clear-cut distinctions and ‘produce complex political ecologies...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Translation, Circulation and the Semi-Periphery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By researching translation flows, the cosmopolitanising and vernacularising dynamics of translation, translation as consecration, and gender as a mediating category in the circulation of literature, sub-group 4 aims at studying cosmopolitan and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Tropical Engagements: Vernaculars in French Early Modern Travel Writing (Africa and the Caribbean 1645-1728)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Tropical Engagements" examines how vernacular languages are incorporated into and impact upon early modern French travel writing from Africa and the Caribbean, by means of lexical inclusions of foreign words and of reported dialogues. The purpose is...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 4 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Decolonizing Phenomenologies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project combines a decolonial critique of Husserl’s phenomenology (Smith) with an analysis of contemporary forms of subjectivation as expressed in decolonial art in postcommunist Eastern Europe (Tlostanova). Phenomenology was important in...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Paradise Lost - Utopia Reclaimed: Writing the Wrongs of French Exploration in the Antipodes
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When France's attempts to claim regions of Australia failed, the dream of an Antipodean paradise was lost. In its breach rose a new utopian frontier. Paradoxically, this anticipatory perspective revives a form of utopianism previously established in...

    Fields of research French literature,  Australian/Oceanian literature,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019