Silvia Schultermandl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Schultermandl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Schultermandl |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULTERMANDL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2813-0291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Solidarity, Archival Activism, and the Ethics of Storytelling in Valeria Luiselli’s "Lost Children Archive"
Valeria Luiselli’s novel "Lost Children Archive" employs the structure of a makeshift archive as a means to represent the precarious lives of child refugees in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The ways in which the narrator collects, cares for, and arranges archival materials facilitate the visibility of lives that otherwise remain obscure. By centering the narrative around the narrator’s attempts to document the extremely hostile conditions of child…
Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies
This introduction puts forth a working definition of oceanic kinship as kinship with the ocean and kinship shaped by the ocean. It uses the notion of kinship as a critical idiom and conceptual lens through which we can examine the oceanic turn’s potential for rethinking forms of human and nonhuman belonging. Modernity and coloniality were spurred and sustained by oceanic mobility. The oceans, as waterways and material presences, have helped shape…
Affective Worldmaking
What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By …
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists’ complex transnational subjectivities, which exist between or outside national frameworks but are n…
Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence, Sentimental Kinship, and the Transnational American Novel of Manners”
Growing Up Transnational
Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity, conflict, and contradictions within current discussions of identity and kinship.This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family rel…
The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
“The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club” sees Tan’s representation of memory as either a function of loss (and limited recovery) or of distance (whether temporal or physical). For Schultermandl, the text suggests that familial or national relationships built on generational and immigrant memory cannot really create conditions of solidarity or identification and are thus doomed to failure—either that, or what is “memor…
From Drug Mule to Miss America
What did any of it have to do with race?”
The question quoted in the title of this article expresses the bafflement of Chen Pan – the main character in Cristina García's novel Monkey Hunting (2003), who migrates from China to Cuba in 1857 in search of riches – as he witnesses the systematic killing of Afro-Cuban rebels during the 1912 Race War. Contrary to Chen Pan's naive outlook on race relations during the formation of the Cuban nation, García's novel, as the author of this article ar…
Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body
In Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman (1997), the Korean American protagonist reconciles with her Korean heritage through the act of spreading her mother's ashes. This essay looks at Keller's use of a "language of the body" that protests against rape and other forms of oppression of the female body. This language of the body does not rely on essentialist parameters of "race" or of women's "nature." On the contrary, by depicting rape as universal, n…
Fighting for the Mother/Land
Fighting for the Mother/Land:An Ecofeminist Reading of Linda Hogan's Solar Storms Silvia Schultermandl (bio) Like many contemporary Native American writers, Chickasaw poet, novelist, and essayist Linda Hogan sees the landscape in its indispensable connection to the human beings inhabiting it. Throughout her writing, Hogan maintains that the interaction between human and nonhuman nature, as well as the disruption thereof, has an undeniable influen…
Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies
This introduction puts forth a working definition of oceanic kinship as kinship with the ocean and kinship shaped by the ocean. It uses the notion of kinship as a critical idiom and conceptual lens through which we can examine the oceanic turn’s potential for rethinking forms of human and nonhuman belonging. Modernity and coloniality were spurred and sustained by oceanic mobility. The oceans, as waterways and material presences, have helped shape…
From Drug Mule to Miss America
Fighting for the Mother/Land
Fighting for the Mother/Land:An Ecofeminist Reading of Linda Hogan's Solar Storms Silvia Schultermandl (bio) Like many contemporary Native American writers, Chickasaw poet, novelist, and essayist Linda Hogan sees the landscape in its indispensable connection to the human beings inhabiting it. Throughout her writing, Hogan maintains that the interaction between human and nonhuman nature, as well as the disruption thereof, has an undeniable influen…
Fighting for the Mother/Land
Fighting for the Mother/Land:An Ecofeminist Reading of Linda Hogan's Solar Storms Silvia Schultermandl (bio) Like many contemporary Native American writers, Chickasaw poet, novelist, and essayist Linda Hogan sees the landscape in its indispensable connection to the human beings inhabiting it. Throughout her writing, Hogan maintains that the interaction between human and nonhuman nature, as well as the disruption thereof, has an undeniable influen…
Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body
In Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman (1997), the Korean American protagonist reconciles with her Korean heritage through the act of spreading her mother's ashes. This essay looks at Keller's use of a "language of the body" that protests against rape and other forms of oppression of the female body. This language of the body does not rely on essentialist parameters of "race" or of women's "nature." On the contrary, by depicting rape as universal, n…
Growing Up Transnational
Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity, conflict, and contradictions within current discussions of identity and kinship.This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family rel…
The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
“The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club” sees Tan’s representation of memory as either a function of loss (and limited recovery) or of distance (whether temporal or physical). For Schultermandl, the text suggests that familial or national relationships built on generational and immigrant memory cannot really create conditions of solidarity or identification and are thus doomed to failure—either that, or what is “memor…
From Drug Mule to Miss America
What did any of it have to do with race?”
The question quoted in the title of this article expresses the bafflement of Chen Pan – the main character in Cristina García's novel Monkey Hunting (2003), who migrates from China to Cuba in 1857 in search of riches – as he witnesses the systematic killing of Afro-Cuban rebels during the 1912 Race War. Contrary to Chen Pan's naive outlook on race relations during the formation of the Cuban nation, García's novel, as the author of this article ar…
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists’ complex transnational subjectivities, which exist between or outside national frameworks but are n…
Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence, Sentimental Kinship, and the Transnational American Novel of Manners”
Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies
This introduction puts forth a working definition of oceanic kinship as kinship with the ocean and kinship shaped by the ocean. It uses the notion of kinship as a critical idiom and conceptual lens through which we can examine the oceanic turn’s potential for rethinking forms of human and nonhuman belonging. Modernity and coloniality were spurred and sustained by oceanic mobility. The oceans, as waterways and material presences, have helped shape…
Affective Worldmaking
What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By …
Solidarity, Archival Activism, and the Ethics of Storytelling in Valeria Luiselli’s "Lost Children Archive"
Valeria Luiselli’s novel "Lost Children Archive" employs the structure of a makeshift archive as a means to represent the precarious lives of child refugees in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The ways in which the narrator collects, cares for, and arranges archival materials facilitate the visibility of lives that otherwise remain obscure. By centering the narrative around the narrator’s attempts to document the extremely hostile conditions of child…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works)