Lucy Gasser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Gasser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gasser |
| SIGNATURE | GASSER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osnabrück University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7251-2909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lotus
The Afro-Asian Writers’ Association and its journal Lotus are increasingly recognized as representing rich resources for better understanding literary Third-Worldism, the formation of postcolonial studies and a postcolonial canon, as well as the mutually constitutive relationship between postcolonialism and the Cold War. For most of its life, Lotus’s English and French editions were printed by the Solidarity Committee of the German Democratic Rep…
Reaching for the Stars
Discourses of space travel have long been acknowledged as imbricated in the logic and language of colonial expansionism. Despite the dangerous uses to which romantic framings of these have historically been put, there is nonetheless a lingeringly aspirational quality to imaginaries of space travel whose emancipatory potential exists in strange tension with its discursive complicity in coloniality. A related tension reverberates in newer revisioni…
A Prague text
While postcolonial scholarship has long sought to decentre Europe, the cumulative effects of such work have been to fetishize and homogenize a figure of Europe. Recent scholarship has recognized the value of reading postcolonial narratives alongside the ramifications of the Cold War for enriched understandings of each and both together. This article enters these conversations by developing a “migrational” reading of three texts about the city of …
Towards Eurasia
In order to heed the call in world literature studies to work against disciplinary Eurocentrism by refiguring both what constitutes world literature and how this is read, in this article I propose world literature as an archive of world-making practices and as an impulse for the articulation of alternative methodological approaches. This takes world literature from the postcolonial South as, following Pheng Cheah, instantiating a modality of worl…
Johannesburg
In this piece, I take as a point of departure Ivan Vladislavić's claim in his study of Johannesburg, Portrait with keys (2006), that “Dickens was blessed to live in a city that collaborated enthusiastically in its own invention. I live in a city that resists the imagination.” I ask what it means to map a city in the imagination, and point to literature's primary role in shaping the “invention” of a city in the mind. What is it that allows some ci…
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Johannesburg
In this piece, I take as a point of departure Ivan Vladislavić's claim in his study of Johannesburg, Portrait with keys (2006), that “Dickens was blessed to live in a city that collaborated enthusiastically in its own invention. I live in a city that resists the imagination.” I ask what it means to map a city in the imagination, and point to literature's primary role in shaping the “invention” of a city in the mind. What is it that allows some ci…
Towards Eurasia
In order to heed the call in world literature studies to work against disciplinary Eurocentrism by refiguring both what constitutes world literature and how this is read, in this article I propose world literature as an archive of world-making practices and as an impulse for the articulation of alternative methodological approaches. This takes world literature from the postcolonial South as, following Pheng Cheah, instantiating a modality of worl…
A Prague text
While postcolonial scholarship has long sought to decentre Europe, the cumulative effects of such work have been to fetishize and homogenize a figure of Europe. Recent scholarship has recognized the value of reading postcolonial narratives alongside the ramifications of the Cold War for enriched understandings of each and both together. This article enters these conversations by developing a “migrational” reading of three texts about the city of …
Reaching for the Stars
Discourses of space travel have long been acknowledged as imbricated in the logic and language of colonial expansionism. Despite the dangerous uses to which romantic framings of these have historically been put, there is nonetheless a lingeringly aspirational quality to imaginaries of space travel whose emancipatory potential exists in strange tension with its discursive complicity in coloniality. A related tension reverberates in newer revisioni…
Lotus
The Afro-Asian Writers’ Association and its journal Lotus are increasingly recognized as representing rich resources for better understanding literary Third-Worldism, the formation of postcolonial studies and a postcolonial canon, as well as the mutually constitutive relationship between postcolonialism and the Cold War. For most of its life, Lotus’s English and French editions were printed by the Solidarity Committee of the German Democratic Rep…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Central European national history (1 work) · Circulation (fluid dynamics) (1 work) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (1 work)