Birgit Mara Kaiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Mara Kaiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaiser |
| SIGNATURE | KAISER B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching Comparative Literature in English(es)
This article reflects on the challenges that arise when the comparative literature classroom, especially in the Netherlands, is increasingly multilingual and simultaneously increasingly monolingual in its focus on English as a primary language. In view of moving comparative literary studies beyond its Eurocentric framework, what opportunities lie in teaching translated texts in “English(es)” in such a multilingual setting? What are the effects of…
What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of ‘1492
Are we on the same page here? Because we too are also now struggling to move beyond the knee-jerk limits of the Us and the Them.1One key historical ‘site of memory’ in which the Jamaican novelist
Other Headings
This essay diffracts the question of the heading of Europe that Derrida asked in 1990. We do so through the prism of harraga presented in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangiers and Boualem Sansal's Harraga. Although Europe as the capital has been ‘de-identified’ (Derrida 1992, 75) in the wake of decolonization and postcolonial critique, it still has to be de-identified always anew. Something has been promised in its name and is, we suggest, current…
Algerian Disorders
This article explores Hélène Cixous’s and Jacques Derrida’s explicit revisiting of their Algerian memories, especially in their later work (mainly Reveries of the Wild Woman and Monolingualism of the Other ). These texts offer a specifically deconstructive response to the colonial project in Algeria, attempting to think non-appropriative relations to otherness and processes of identification that exceed a self/other binary. Investigating the colo…
A new German, singularly Turkish. Reading Emine Sevgi Özdamar with Derrida's Monolingualism of the Other
The works of the Turkish-German writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar (1946–) perform an unusual blend of German and Turkish cultural and linguistic repertoires that defies their easy subsumption under the category of Turkish-German migrant literature. Özdamar's poetic deterritorialization of German by a Turkish subtext and the fantastical elements in her narratives disrupt any mimetic reading of them as representations of the life of migrants, something th…
Worlding CompLit
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special inte…
Diffraction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special inte…
(Un)grounding the human
This article examines the place of the human in Hélène Cixous’s work. Taking her extended conversation with Mireille Calle-Gruber (‘Entre Tiens’) as a starting point, the article shows how Cixous employs the word ‘human’ to denominate a transformational, embodied process, directed at an ethico-political becoming, rather than to invoke a differentia specifica vis-à-vis other forms of life. She thereby moves our conceptions of the ‘human’ beyond ra…
Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze
Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and estab
The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right
Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Human Right”: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 9 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published—first in English and rapidly afterwards in German—a short text that was noth ing less than a scathing critique of the recent attempts to rea…
Diffraction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special inte…
The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right
Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Human Right”: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 9 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published—first in English and rapidly afterwards in German—a short text that was noth ing less than a scathing critique of the recent attempts to rea…
Worlding CompLit
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special inte…
What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of ‘1492
Are we on the same page here? Because we too are also now struggling to move beyond the knee-jerk limits of the Us and the Them.1One key historical ‘site of memory’ in which the Jamaican novelist
Algerian Disorders
This article explores Hélène Cixous’s and Jacques Derrida’s explicit revisiting of their Algerian memories, especially in their later work (mainly Reveries of the Wild Woman and Monolingualism of the Other ). These texts offer a specifically deconstructive response to the colonial project in Algeria, attempting to think non-appropriative relations to otherness and processes of identification that exceed a self/other binary. Investigating the colo…
(Un)grounding the human
This article examines the place of the human in Hélène Cixous’s work. Taking her extended conversation with Mireille Calle-Gruber (‘Entre Tiens’) as a starting point, the article shows how Cixous employs the word ‘human’ to denominate a transformational, embodied process, directed at an ethico-political becoming, rather than to invoke a differentia specifica vis-à-vis other forms of life. She thereby moves our conceptions of the ‘human’ beyond ra…
The "Aporias of Human Rights" and the "One Human Right
Christoph Menke The “Aporias of Human Rights” and the “One Human Right”: Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt’s Argument IN 1 9 4 9 , IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NEWLY founded United Nations had adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948, Hannah Arendt published—first in English and rapidly afterwards in German—a short text that was noth ing less than a scathing critique of the recent attempts to rea…
Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze
Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and estab
(Un)grounding the human
This article examines the place of the human in Hélène Cixous’s work. Taking her extended conversation with Mireille Calle-Gruber (‘Entre Tiens’) as a starting point, the article shows how Cixous employs the word ‘human’ to denominate a transformational, embodied process, directed at an ethico-political becoming, rather than to invoke a differentia specifica vis-à-vis other forms of life. She thereby moves our conceptions of the ‘human’ beyond ra…
A new German, singularly Turkish. Reading Emine Sevgi Özdamar with Derrida's Monolingualism of the Other
The works of the Turkish-German writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar (1946–) perform an unusual blend of German and Turkish cultural and linguistic repertoires that defies their easy subsumption under the category of Turkish-German migrant literature. Özdamar's poetic deterritorialization of German by a Turkish subtext and the fantastical elements in her narratives disrupt any mimetic reading of them as representations of the life of migrants, something th…
Worlding CompLit
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special inte…
Diffraction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBirgit Mara KaiserBirgit Mara Kaiser is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Trained in sociology and literature in Bochum, London, Madrid and Bielefeld, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her current research spans literatures in English, French and German from the eighteenth to twenty-first century, with special inte…
Algerian Disorders
This article explores Hélène Cixous’s and Jacques Derrida’s explicit revisiting of their Algerian memories, especially in their later work (mainly Reveries of the Wild Woman and Monolingualism of the Other ). These texts offer a specifically deconstructive response to the colonial project in Algeria, attempting to think non-appropriative relations to otherness and processes of identification that exceed a self/other binary. Investigating the colo…
Other Headings
This essay diffracts the question of the heading of Europe that Derrida asked in 1990. We do so through the prism of harraga presented in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangiers and Boualem Sansal's Harraga. Although Europe as the capital has been ‘de-identified’ (Derrida 1992, 75) in the wake of decolonization and postcolonial critique, it still has to be de-identified always anew. Something has been promised in its name and is, we suggest, current…
What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of ‘1492
Are we on the same page here? Because we too are also now struggling to move beyond the knee-jerk limits of the Us and the Them.1One key historical ‘site of memory’ in which the Jamaican novelist
Teaching Comparative Literature in English(es)
This article reflects on the challenges that arise when the comparative literature classroom, especially in the Netherlands, is increasingly multilingual and simultaneously increasingly monolingual in its focus on English as a primary language. In view of moving comparative literary studies beyond its Eurocentric framework, what opportunities lie in teaching translated texts in “English(es)” in such a multilingual setting? What are the effects of…
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