Birgit Neumann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Neumann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Neumann |
| SIGNATURE | NEUMANN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1181-9906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating Collective Agencies and Digital Pharmacology in Contemporary Anglophone Novels – ‘Cure’ and ‘Poison’ for Female and Black Collectivities
The essay focuses on anglophone novels that critically examine the promises and risks associated with digital media for female and Black collectivities – two groups that have had little share in building and curating the digital infrastructures that ostensibly constitute our shared spaces. Novels by writers such as Lauren Oyler, Sarah Rose Etter, Patricia Lockwood, Teju Cole, Yomi Adegoke, and Kiley Reid underscore that desires for digital connec…
An ocean of languages? Multilingualism in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The article examines the multilingual poetics of Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, focusing on the historically strained relations between English and India’s other languages. As a contribution to the project of “unforgetting English” (Walkowitz, 2015), the close reading of Roy’s novel reveals how English is construed and posited as a language within India’s multilingual environment. The use of English in Roy’s novel is ting…
The Uneven Travels of World Literature: On Creole and Untranslatability in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Miriam Mandelkow’s Die Taugenichtse
The essay engages with possibilities of translating Creole in Anglophone world literatures and investigates the socio-political frames within which translations occur. It has been argued that it is impossible to translate, read and understand the connotations of Creole without their historical and cultural contexts, from which these linguistic varieties are derived and which they conversely help produce. Texts thriving on Creole, such as Sam Selv…
“Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all – but an orphan”: The Mother Tongue and Translation in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
The essay offers a close reading of On Earth We’re Briefly Georgeous , the remarkable novel by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong, showing how the text’s critical engagement with the notion of the mother tongue is used to negotiate subjectivity and community in diasporic contexts. It assesses the importance of the tongue within the broader context of contemporary migrant and transcultural fiction and reveals how the tongue functions as a trop…
Each phrase go be soaked in salt' - vernacular worlds in Derek Walcott's poetry
The essay examines the use of the vernacular in some of Derek Walcott’s poems, arguing that the vernacular performs a paradoxical task: While it indexes transcultural entanglement and plurality, it also remains attuned to local specificities and linguistic difference. The vernacular, in poems such as ‘Names’ (1976), ‘Sainte Lucie’ (1976), ‘The Schooner Flight’ (1979), and Omeros (1990), is a carefully stylised, genuinely transcultural idiom that …
Sea passages: Cultural flows in Caribbean poetry
In Caribbean poetry, it is time and again the sea, as site of the Middle Passage and as a marker of island experiences, of displacement and belonging, which gives shape to an inherently polyvalent poetics of location. The sea pervades many Caribbean poems, both as a historical contact zone and as an imaginative principle of a new kind of nomadic and mobile epistemology. While the “Black Atlantic” paradigm fruitfully emphasizes transit and transcu…
Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole
Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture
The Empire of Things in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: Consumption of the Foreign and Imperial Self-Fashioning
The paper is devoted to exploring representations of colonial things in early eighteenth-century literature. In numerous literary and economic texts of this period, colonial luxuries come to represent the main objectives of imperialism. Literary representations of colonial things are engaged in negotiating the precarious relationship between England and its colonial others and express many of the uncertainties brought about by the emergence of im…
Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives
Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book “Ways of Worldmaking”, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disci…
Cultural ways of worldmaking: Media and Narratives
The Literary Representation of Memory
Sea passages: Cultural flows in Caribbean poetry
In Caribbean poetry, it is time and again the sea, as site of the Middle Passage and as a marker of island experiences, of displacement and belonging, which gives shape to an inherently polyvalent poetics of location. The sea pervades many Caribbean poems, both as a historical contact zone and as an imaginative principle of a new kind of nomadic and mobile epistemology. While the “Black Atlantic” paradigm fruitfully emphasizes transit and transcu…
The Literary Representation of Memory
Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives
Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book “Ways of Worldmaking”, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disci…
Cultural ways of worldmaking: Media and Narratives
Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole
Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture
The Empire of Things in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: Consumption of the Foreign and Imperial Self-Fashioning
The paper is devoted to exploring representations of colonial things in early eighteenth-century literature. In numerous literary and economic texts of this period, colonial luxuries come to represent the main objectives of imperialism. Literary representations of colonial things are engaged in negotiating the precarious relationship between England and its colonial others and express many of the uncertainties brought about by the emergence of im…
Sea passages: Cultural flows in Caribbean poetry
In Caribbean poetry, it is time and again the sea, as site of the Middle Passage and as a marker of island experiences, of displacement and belonging, which gives shape to an inherently polyvalent poetics of location. The sea pervades many Caribbean poems, both as a historical contact zone and as an imaginative principle of a new kind of nomadic and mobile epistemology. While the “Black Atlantic” paradigm fruitfully emphasizes transit and transcu…
The Uneven Travels of World Literature: On Creole and Untranslatability in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Miriam Mandelkow’s Die Taugenichtse
The essay engages with possibilities of translating Creole in Anglophone world literatures and investigates the socio-political frames within which translations occur. It has been argued that it is impossible to translate, read and understand the connotations of Creole without their historical and cultural contexts, from which these linguistic varieties are derived and which they conversely help produce. Texts thriving on Creole, such as Sam Selv…
“Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all – but an orphan”: The Mother Tongue and Translation in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
The essay offers a close reading of On Earth We’re Briefly Georgeous , the remarkable novel by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong, showing how the text’s critical engagement with the notion of the mother tongue is used to negotiate subjectivity and community in diasporic contexts. It assesses the importance of the tongue within the broader context of contemporary migrant and transcultural fiction and reveals how the tongue functions as a trop…
Each phrase go be soaked in salt' - vernacular worlds in Derek Walcott's poetry
The essay examines the use of the vernacular in some of Derek Walcott’s poems, arguing that the vernacular performs a paradoxical task: While it indexes transcultural entanglement and plurality, it also remains attuned to local specificities and linguistic difference. The vernacular, in poems such as ‘Names’ (1976), ‘Sainte Lucie’ (1976), ‘The Schooner Flight’ (1979), and Omeros (1990), is a carefully stylised, genuinely transcultural idiom that …
An ocean of languages? Multilingualism in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The article examines the multilingual poetics of Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, focusing on the historically strained relations between English and India’s other languages. As a contribution to the project of “unforgetting English” (Walkowitz, 2015), the close reading of Roy’s novel reveals how English is construed and posited as a language within India’s multilingual environment. The use of English in Roy’s novel is ting…
Negotiating Collective Agencies and Digital Pharmacology in Contemporary Anglophone Novels – ‘Cure’ and ‘Poison’ for Female and Black Collectivities
The essay focuses on anglophone novels that critically examine the promises and risks associated with digital media for female and Black collectivities – two groups that have had little share in building and curating the digital infrastructures that ostensibly constitute our shared spaces. Novels by writers such as Lauren Oyler, Sarah Rose Etter, Patricia Lockwood, Teju Cole, Yomi Adegoke, and Kiley Reid underscore that desires for digital connec…
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