ZS: KULT_online Nr. 67 (2023)

Das Rezensionsmagazin des Gießener Graduiertenzentrums Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) und des International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/issue/view/101

KULT_rezensionen

Rezension Virtual Immortality — Das Paradies aus der Maschine

Krüger, Oliver. Virtual Immortality. God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021. 356 Seiten, 35 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5059-4.

A Review by Tobias Bieseke

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1341

Ethics at the Crossroads of Disciplines: Cognitive, Affect, and Literary Studies

Hogan, Patrick Colm. Literature and Moral Feeling. A Cognitive Poetics of Ethics, Narrative, and Empathy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 306 pages, 85 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-00-916951-6.

A Review by Riccardo Buonamici

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1367

Von der Verflechtung und Entflechtung — Im Austausch mit Transkulturalität

Erfurt, Jürgen (ed.). Transkulturalität. Prozesse und Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2021. 363 Seiten, 31 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-8252-5542-8.

A Review by Melisa M. Çiçek

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1383

Of Pirates and Institutions

Norton, Matthew. The Punishment of Pirates. Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire. Chicago/London: Chicago University Press, 2023. 236 pages, 29.99 USD. ISBN: 978-0-226-82310-2.

A Review by Edward Djordjevic

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1368

Sweet Emotions: Why Feelings Matter at Heritage Sites

Smith, Laurajane. Emotional Heritage. Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2021. 352 Pages, 49.95 USD. ISBN: 978-1-138-88865-4.

A Review by Sandra Engels

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1370

FLINTA nach vorn! Deutschpunk und sein Sexismus-Problem

Ringelsiep, Diana und Ronja Schwikowski (Hg.). Punk as F*ck. Die Szene aus FLINTA-Perspektive. Mainz: Ventil, 2022. 448 Seiten, 24,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-95575-187-6.

A Review by Justus Grebe

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1365

Understanding and Preventing Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Multi-disciplinary Endeavor

Biholar, Ramona and Dacia L. Leslie (eds.). Critical Caribbean Perspectives on Preventing Gender-Based Violence. Routledge, 2022. 242 pages, 31.19 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-00-325520-8.

A Review by Isabella Kalte

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1375

Moral als Zeichen ihrer Zeit: Historische und aktuelle Positionen im Spannungsfeld von Design und Ethik bei Christian Bauer

Bauer, Christian. Ethik für Designer. Stuttgart: avedition, 2022. 144 Seiten, 19,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-89986-381-9.

A Review by Saskia Ketz

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1377

Images of Terror: How to “See” Trauma in Literary Texts?

Armstrong, Charles I. and Unni Langås (eds.). Terrorizing Images. Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 204 pages, 104,95 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-11-069290-7.

A Review by Anna Klishevich

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1346

Ulrike Felsing: Reflexive Ausstellungskataloge

Felsing, Ulrike. Reflexive Kataloge. Ein Medium der Übersetzung als Ausstellung, Film und Hypertext. transcript Verlag, 2021. 314 Seiten, 45,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5628-2.

A Review by Tabea Lurk

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1363

Safe Space in Zeiten der Postmoderne: Zur Praxis und Dynamik neo-diasporischer Gemeinschaften

Karner, Marie Johanna. Neo-diasporische Gemeinschaften. Blouzaniyye in Sydney, Australien. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 505 Seiten, 82 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-515-12830-8.

A Review by Anastasiia Marsheva

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1345

Of Glass Fishes and Crystal Chandeliers: The (Important) Role of Material Culture within Changing Times

Cristache, Maria. Domesticity on Display. Romanian Middle-class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 211 pages, 93,08 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-030-78783-7.

A Review by Piera Mazzaglia

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1381

Metamorphose eines überregionalen Verkehrsknotenpunktes: Lembergs Bahnhöfe im Spiegel der osteuropäischen Stadtentwicklung

Weck, Nadia. Eisenbahn und Stadtentwicklung in Zentraleuropa am Beispiel der Stadt Lemberg (Lwów, L‘viv). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz-Verlag, 2020. 352 Seiten, 58,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-447-11416-5.

A Review by Christian Müller

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1342

Aemulatio, Kollaborationen und Aneignung — Zum Self-fashioning nordischer Künstlerinnen in den 1880er Jahren

Rech, Carina. Becoming Artists. Self-Portaits, Friendship Images and Studio Scenes by Nordic Women Painters in the 1880s. Göteborg/Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2021. 448 Seiten, 30,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-91-7061-854-3.

A Review by Lisa Pregitzer

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1371

Fictions at Work: Original Takes and Future Trajectories

Polland-Schmandt, Imke and Ansgar Nünning (eds.). The Cultural Work of Fictions. Trajectories of Literary Studies in the 21st Century. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021. (ELCH; Band 84). 216 Pages, 32,50 Euro. ISBN: 978-3-86821-912-8

A Review by Marco Presago

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1372

Gilroy Goes Digital: A Visionary Volume on Black Tech Practice and Afro-Diasporic Voices in the Digital Humanities 

Risam, Roopika and Kelly Baker Josephs (eds.). The Digital Black Atlantic. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2021. xxiv, 248 pages, 34,68 EUR. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1080-8.

A Review by Fiona Quast

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1369

Between Roman Authority and Greek Ritual: The Turbulent History of the Uniate Church at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Wolff, Larry. Disunion within the Union. The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 152 pages, 18 EUR, ISBN 978-0-674-24628-7.

A Review by Kacper Radny

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1382

Contemporary Modes of Remembering the Holocaust — How and Why?

Berberich, Christine (ed.). Trauma and Memory. The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture. New York: Routledge, 2021. 223 pages, 22,39 EUR. ISBN: 978-0-367-70316-5.

A Review by Archana Ravi

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1384

Slowing Down in a Sped-Up World: How Slow Narrative Can Foster Embodied Experiences of Climate Change and Prompt Ethical Responses

Caracciolo, Marco. Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 258 pages, 60 USD. ISBN: 978-1-4962-3088-1.

A Review by Dorothea Sawon

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1374

Between Satire and Politics: Tracing British Perception of China in Punch’s Cartoons
Amy Matthewson. Cartooning China. Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era. Routledge, 2022. 188 pages, 38.99 GBP. ISBN: 978-0-367-46099-0.

A Review by Ziling Song

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1366

KULT_reports

Workshop Report on “Vocabularies of Migration: Reflexive Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, Translation and Language in Migration Research”

A Report by Morteza Azimi, Melisa Meryem Çiçek, Erzhena Dugarova, Pinar Gümüs Mantu and Anastasiia Marsheva

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1378

Conference Report on “Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds”

A Report by Isabella Kalte and Fiona Quast

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1376