Verena Adamik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Adamik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamik |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMIK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1673-1065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Changeling Genres and the Glamour of the Human
Employing a notion of “glamour,” Victor LaValle’s "The Changeling" pushes readers to re-adjust their vision of how the world is made. In the novel, glamour operates as an “illusion” that serves to “obscure[ ] the suffering of the weak” (247; 384). This essay traces glamour’s obscuring force by putting LaValle’s work in conversation with Mark Jerng’s analysis of literary genre as a mode of “racial worldmaking” that centrally employs but obscures t…
Dreaming the Present
Contributors to Utopian Studies and members of various utopian studies networks have acknowledged that Black utopias—in all the faces that utopianism can take—are still largely neglected and underrepresented in our publications, meetings, and theorizations (this also goes for utopias outside of White, Western normativity in general). Studies from within our field that sought to take the first steps to address this exclusion convincingly argue tha…
Making worlds from literature
While W.E.B. Du Bois’s first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), is set squarely in the USA, his second work of fiction, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), abandons this national framework, depicting the treatment of African Americans in the USA as embedded into an international system of economic exploitation based on racial categories. Ultimately, the political visions offered in the novels differ starkly, but both employ a Western lite…
From Utopian Island to Global Empire
This article discusses how Alex Garland's The Beach (1996) engages with conceptions of utopian islands, nation, and colonialism in modernity and how it, from this basis, develops a different spatiality that reflects on a more deterritorialized form of imperial domination within late twentieth-century globalization, as exercised by the United States. The novel is shown to subvert, but not to abolish, two spatial formations that originated in early…
In Search of the Utopian States of America
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In Search of the Utopian States of America
Making worlds from literature
While W.E.B. Du Bois’s first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), is set squarely in the USA, his second work of fiction, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), abandons this national framework, depicting the treatment of African Americans in the USA as embedded into an international system of economic exploitation based on racial categories. Ultimately, the political visions offered in the novels differ starkly, but both employ a Western lite…
From Utopian Island to Global Empire
This article discusses how Alex Garland's The Beach (1996) engages with conceptions of utopian islands, nation, and colonialism in modernity and how it, from this basis, develops a different spatiality that reflects on a more deterritorialized form of imperial domination within late twentieth-century globalization, as exercised by the United States. The novel is shown to subvert, but not to abolish, two spatial formations that originated in early…
Changeling Genres and the Glamour of the Human
Employing a notion of “glamour,” Victor LaValle’s "The Changeling" pushes readers to re-adjust their vision of how the world is made. In the novel, glamour operates as an “illusion” that serves to “obscure[ ] the suffering of the weak” (247; 384). This essay traces glamour’s obscuring force by putting LaValle’s work in conversation with Mark Jerng’s analysis of literary genre as a mode of “racial worldmaking” that centrally employs but obscures t…
Dreaming the Present
Contributors to Utopian Studies and members of various utopian studies networks have acknowledged that Black utopias—in all the faces that utopianism can take—are still largely neglected and underrepresented in our publications, meetings, and theorizations (this also goes for utopias outside of White, Western normativity in general). Studies from within our field that sought to take the first steps to address this exclusion convincingly argue tha…
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