LEADER 04480cam a2200613 i 4500001 99131174573906421 005 20240808041029.0 008 240129s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2023058208 020 9781640141698 |q(hardback ; |qacid-free paper) 020 1640141693 |q(hardback ; |qacid-free paper) 020 |z9781805433385 |q(pdf) 020 |z1805433385 |q(pdf) 020 |z9781805433392 |q(epub) 020 |z1805433393 |q(epub) 035 (OCoLC)on1423133452 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dERASA |dINU |dYDX 042 pcc 043 e-gx---e-pl--- 050 00 PT772 |b.M38 2024 082 00 833/.92093581 |223/eng/20240229 100 1 May-Chu, Karolina, |eauthor. 245 10 Border poetics in German and Polish literature : |bcosmopolitan imaginations since 1989 / |cKarolina May-Chu. 264 1 Rochester, New York : |bCamden House, |c2024. 300 x, 201 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Studies in German literature linguistics and culture ; |v242 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-194) and index. 520 "Examines how political borders are intertwined with less concrete borders such as those of ethnicity, gender, or class, and how these entanglements are represented in contemporary novels that reimagine the German-Polish borderlands as cosmopolitan spaces. Globalization notwithstanding, we live in an age of borders, as the ongoing conflict at Europe's eastern edge reminds us. Borders are meant to protect, but they also divide and exclude. This book, however, focuses on literature that pushes back against the divisiveness of borders, advocating for transborder connections and criticizing exclusionary boundaries. It examines novels that reimagine the German-Polish borderlands as cosmopolitan spaces: novels by Nobel Prize winners Olga Tokarczuk and Günter Grass as well as by authors less well known internationally: the Polish Inga Iwasiów, the German Tanja Dückers, and the German-Polish Sabrina Janesch. The book utilizes and elaborates the concept of border poetics, a narrative and cultural practice that places political borders in relation to less concrete borders such as those of gender, ethnicity, or class, as well as in relation to epistemological and ontological boundaries: of language, knowledge, even reality. Because border poetics rests on the same productive tension between the particular and the universal that drives contemporary notions of cosmopolitanism, the book argues for the practice as an instance of what sociologist Gerard Delanty has termed "cosmopolitan imagination." The richly contextualized analysis is framed within transnational German Studies and draws on border studies, cosmopolitanism, European literature, and world literature."-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 German fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 German fiction |y21st century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Polish fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Polish fiction |y21st century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Boundaries in literature. 650 0 Cosmopolitanism in literature. 650 0 Belonging (Social psychology) in literature. 651 0 Germany |xRelations |zPoland. 651 0 Poland |xRelations |zGermany. 650 6 Roman allemand |y20e siècle |xHistoire et critique. 650 6 Roman allemand |y21e siècle |xHistoire et critique. 650 6 Roman polonais |y21e siècle |xHistoire et critique. 650 6 Frontières dans la littérature. 650 6 Cosmopolitisme dans la littérature. 650 6 Appartenance (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature. 655 7 Literary criticism. |2lcgft 655 7 Critiques littéraires. |2rvmgf 776 08 |iOnline version:May-Chu, Karolina. |tBorder poetics in German and Polish literature |dRochester, New York : Camden House, 2024 |z9781805433385 |w(DLC) 2023058209 830 0 Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ; |vv. 242. 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h126199 914 (OCoLC)on1423133452 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240807 |eprocessed |f1423133452 980 20814509 |f126199 |i120.00 |j98.40 |n40032375273 |sNumbered Series 982 |cf |q32101116243625