Eva Ulrike Pirker
Biographic Data
| ID | 213419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Ulrike Pirker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva Ulrike |
| FAMILY NAME | Pirker |
| SIGNATURE | PIRKER E U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5304-2536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English moves
As the world’s “hyper-central” language, English operates within asymmetrical structures of power while enabling processes of hybridization, adaptation, and contestation. Rather than a bounded, homogeneous system, English is a (trans)portable resource that circulates across linguistic, cultural, literary and medial contexts. Assembling insights from sociolinguistics, literary and cultural studies as well as translation research, this opening cont…
Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories
Afrofuturism's Transcultural Trajectories
Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media
This introduction to the special issue Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories aims to provide momentary insights into the state of the art of an expanding and increasingly diversified field of exploration, cultural and artistic practice and theoretical debate. Momentary indeed, because so much is happening under the umbrella term of Afrofuturism that we can only relegate readers, quite literally, to the future for further assessments. We outli…
Britishness beyond the New Britain
The articles in this collection explore issues of identity in a range of black and Asian British writing of the new millennium: they analyse works of fiction, biography and drama that in recent yea
Approaching space
This article traces Zadie Smith’s recurring, but shifting, engagement with North London in her works White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and The Embassy of Cambodia. It argues that underlying Smith’s changing aesthetic approaches to this particular space is an ethical agenda: an emphasis on the necessity to engage critically and responsibly with space (which Doreen Massey has read as a social construction that impacts powerfully on indi…
Screening Slavery and the Slave Trade before the Bicentenary
The Abolition as Costume Film
Index
Conclusion
The Windrush Story as Musical
Setting a Critical Tone
Migration as Heritage Drama? Small Island
Family, Sport and Period in Wondrous Oblivion
Migration History as Entertainment? Trends in Contemporary British Theatre
Notting Hill in a Historical Crime Serial
Screening and Staging an Arrival
Key Aims and Questions
Simon Schama's Rough Crossings
Family Matters
Note on Citations
The Impact of 2007 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in British Museums
Doing an Anniversary‹
Discovering a Past for the Present
Historical Culture and Social Communication
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novel…
Approaching space
This article traces Zadie Smith’s recurring, but shifting, engagement with North London in her works White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and The Embassy of Cambodia. It argues that underlying Smith’s changing aesthetic approaches to this particular space is an ethical agenda: an emphasis on the necessity to engage critically and responsibly with space (which Doreen Massey has read as a social construction that impacts powerfully on indi…
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novel…
Facing the East in the West
Over the last decade, migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe have become an issue in political debates about human rights, social integration, multiculturalism and citizenship in Great Britain. The increasing number of Eastern Europeans living in Britain has provoked ambivalent and diverse responses, including representations in film and literature that range from travel writing, humorous fiction, mockumentaries, musicals, drama and chil…
Screening Slavery and the Slave Trade before the Bicentenary
The Abolition as Costume Film
Index
Conclusion
The Windrush Story as Musical
Setting a Critical Tone
Migration as Heritage Drama? Small Island
Family, Sport and Period in Wondrous Oblivion
Migration History as Entertainment? Trends in Contemporary British Theatre
Notting Hill in a Historical Crime Serial
Screening and Staging an Arrival
Key Aims and Questions
Simon Schama's Rough Crossings
Family Matters
Note on Citations
The Impact of 2007 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in British Museums
Doing an Anniversary‹
Discovering a Past for the Present
Historical Culture and Social Communication
Popular Re/Presentation of History and Its Media
Remembering and Forgetting Slavery
Black History – White History
Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. »Black History - White History« assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversar…
Black History - White History
Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. »Black History - White History« assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversar…
History (22 works) · Art (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works)