Carl Niekerk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Niekerk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Niekerk |
| SIGNATURE | NIEKERK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7086-2859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
In his 2022 Tales from the Borderlands , Omer Bartov proposes the term “borderlands” to come to a better understanding of the political and cultural specifics of the geographical part of Europe that has long been called its “East.”[1][1] It is an area the history of which, so Bartov shows
Remembering and Narrating the “Bloodlands” in Josef Haslinger’s Jáchymov (2011)[Die “Bloodlands” in Josef Haslingers Jáchymov (2011) erinnern und erzählen]
Josef Haslinger’s novel Jáchymov (2011) engages with a particular troubling episode of Czechoslovakia’s immediate postwar history: the arrest of the entire national ice hockey team on 13 March 1950 and its members’ subsequent imprisonment and condemnation to work in the uranium mines of Jáchymov, having been accused of treason, criticism of the regime, and the intention to emigrate. In the novel, an aging publisher in poor health, Anselm Findeise…
Lessing divers—Soziale Milieus, Genderformationen, Ethnien und Religionen. Von Dirk Niefanger. Göttingen
Lessing divers—Soziale Milieus, Genderformationen, Ethnien und Religionen. Von Dirk Niefanger. Göttingen: Berghahn Books, 2023. 394 Seiten + 15 Abbildungen. €34,00 gebunden, €33,99 eBook. In many respects, the style and method of Dirk Niefanger’s latest book, Lessing divers , remind
Herder’s Concept of Culture
This article presents a critical examination of the concept of “culture” in the writings of Johann Gottfried Herder. Herder’s use of the term “culture” participates in a broader pan-European rethinking of the term as part of the emerging discipline of anthropology. In a first step, the paper offers a chronological reconstruction of Herder’s use of the concept, its Latin origins, and its links to theories of climate and geography. As a second step…
Orientalism, Europe’s Borderlands, and the Possibility of Genocide in Franz Werfel’s Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933)
Körper, Geist und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Über die Medialität des Menschen. Von Philipp Klaus. Bielefeld
Körper, Geist und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Über die Medialität des Menschen . Von Philipp Klaus. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2022. 360 Seiten. €40,00 broschiert oder eBook. Obwohl Medialität in der Germanistik ein zur Zeit häufig benutztes Stichwort ist, scheint das achtzehnte
"Komteß Mizzi"
Reviewed by: "Komteß Mizzi": Eine Chronik aus dem Wien um 1900 ed. by Walter Schübler Carl Niekerk Walter Schübler, ed., "Komteß Mizzi": Eine Chronik aus dem Wien um 1900. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020. 236 pp. This volume is a "must-read" for anyone teaching courses on the history of sexuality and literature in Vienna around 1900. Overseen by Walter Schübler, Komteß Mizzi is a carefully selected and edited collection of documents (trial records, in…
Introduction
Thank You
The Quest for Redemption
Reviewed by: The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares G. Piloiu Carl Niekerk Rares G. Piloiu, The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2018. 338 pp. Rares G. Piloiu's The Quest for Redemption offers a comprehensive study of Joseph Roth's fictional works, including a review of scholarship and some interesting side glances at Roth's …
Anthropologie und Ästhetik. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Herausgegeben von Britta Herrmann. Paderborn
The Radical Enlightenment in Germany
This volume investigates the impact of the Radical Enlightenment on German culture during the eighteenth century, taking recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure. The collection documents the cultural dimension of the debate on the Radical Enlightenment. In a series of readings of known and lesser-known fictional and essayistic texts, individual contributors show that these can be read not only as articulating a conflict between E…
Introduction
World Literature without Goethe
This essay offers a critical reevaluation of the concept “world literature” based on a reading of a series of deliberations in Pramoedya penal colony memoirs The Mute’s Soliloquy (Indonesian 1995 and 1997/English version 1999), in particular concerning German literature and history. In order to work with literature in a global context, one needs to do justice to the material conditions under which literature originates and is being read; it also …
Chunjie Zhang. Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism
When Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter (born 1986), working for the Magnum agency, finished a multiyear project photographing Egyptian women and children in domestic settings, she decided that
Forum
Radical Thinking and the Dialogic Mode in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Andreas-Hartknopf- Novels
Rethinking a Problematic Constellation
Research Article| August 01 2003 Rethinking a Problematic Constellation: Postcolonialism and its Germanic Contexts (Pramoedya Ananta Toer/Multatuli) CARL NIEKERK CARL NIEKERK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 58–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
One Hundred Years of Masochism. Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts
Literatur in der Diktatur. Schreiben im Nationalsozialismus und DDR-Sozialismus
In der Sprache der Tater. Neue Lekturen deutschsprachiger Nachkriegs-und Gegenwartsliteratur
Die Verwaltung des Abenteuers
Austria and Other Margins
In this book Katherine Arens offers a series of case studies that redefine what 'reading culture' can mean in literary and cultural studies. The first part traces the ways in which authors borrow and rewrite literary traditions across national lines, in order to address problems in their own cultures' histories. In the second set of essays, Professor Arens illustrates how literature can cross other kinds of cultural boundaries, especially those b…
Lebensgeschichte als Korpergeschichte. Studien zum Bildungsroman im 18. Jahrhundert
Sexual Imagery in Goethe's Faust II
From the perspective of literary and intellectual history, Goethe's Faust II is one of the most complex works of modern literature. Formally, the work integrates rather diverse aesthetic traditions, attempting to bridge the gap between the mythological and literary beginnings of Western culture in ancient times on the one hand, and the most recent discussions concerning the Romantic concept of Universalpoesie on the other. On the level of content…
Rethinking a Problematic Constellation
Research Article| August 01 2003 Rethinking a Problematic Constellation: Postcolonialism and its Germanic Contexts (Pramoedya Ananta Toer/Multatuli) CARL NIEKERK CARL NIEKERK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 58–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Sexual Imagery in Goethe's Faust II
From the perspective of literary and intellectual history, Goethe's Faust II is one of the most complex works of modern literature. Formally, the work integrates rather diverse aesthetic traditions, attempting to bridge the gap between the mythological and literary beginnings of Western culture in ancient times on the one hand, and the most recent discussions concerning the Romantic concept of Universalpoesie on the other. On the level of content…
Lebensgeschichte als Korpergeschichte. Studien zum Bildungsroman im 18. Jahrhundert
In der Sprache der Tater. Neue Lekturen deutschsprachiger Nachkriegs-und Gegenwartsliteratur
Die Verwaltung des Abenteuers
Austria and Other Margins
In this book Katherine Arens offers a series of case studies that redefine what 'reading culture' can mean in literary and cultural studies. The first part traces the ways in which authors borrow and rewrite literary traditions across national lines, in order to address problems in their own cultures' histories. In the second set of essays, Professor Arens illustrates how literature can cross other kinds of cultural boundaries, especially those b…
Literatur in der Diktatur. Schreiben im Nationalsozialismus und DDR-Sozialismus
One Hundred Years of Masochism. Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts
Rethinking a Problematic Constellation
Research Article| August 01 2003 Rethinking a Problematic Constellation: Postcolonialism and its Germanic Contexts (Pramoedya Ananta Toer/Multatuli) CARL NIEKERK CARL NIEKERK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 58–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Radical Thinking and the Dialogic Mode in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Andreas-Hartknopf- Novels
Forum
The Radical Enlightenment in Germany
This volume investigates the impact of the Radical Enlightenment on German culture during the eighteenth century, taking recent work by Jonathan Israel as its point of departure. The collection documents the cultural dimension of the debate on the Radical Enlightenment. In a series of readings of known and lesser-known fictional and essayistic texts, individual contributors show that these can be read not only as articulating a conflict between E…
Introduction
World Literature without Goethe
This essay offers a critical reevaluation of the concept “world literature” based on a reading of a series of deliberations in Pramoedya penal colony memoirs The Mute’s Soliloquy (Indonesian 1995 and 1997/English version 1999), in particular concerning German literature and history. In order to work with literature in a global context, one needs to do justice to the material conditions under which literature originates and is being read; it also …
Chunjie Zhang. Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism
When Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter (born 1986), working for the Magnum agency, finished a multiyear project photographing Egyptian women and children in domestic settings, she decided that
The Quest for Redemption
Reviewed by: The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares G. Piloiu Carl Niekerk Rares G. Piloiu, The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2018. 338 pp. Rares G. Piloiu's The Quest for Redemption offers a comprehensive study of Joseph Roth's fictional works, including a review of scholarship and some interesting side glances at Roth's …
Anthropologie und Ästhetik. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Herausgegeben von Britta Herrmann. Paderborn
"Komteß Mizzi"
Reviewed by: "Komteß Mizzi": Eine Chronik aus dem Wien um 1900 ed. by Walter Schübler Carl Niekerk Walter Schübler, ed., "Komteß Mizzi": Eine Chronik aus dem Wien um 1900. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020. 236 pp. This volume is a "must-read" for anyone teaching courses on the history of sexuality and literature in Vienna around 1900. Overseen by Walter Schübler, Komteß Mizzi is a carefully selected and edited collection of documents (trial records, in…
Introduction
Thank You
Körper, Geist und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Über die Medialität des Menschen. Von Philipp Klaus. Bielefeld
Körper, Geist und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Über die Medialität des Menschen . Von Philipp Klaus. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2022. 360 Seiten. €40,00 broschiert oder eBook. Obwohl Medialität in der Germanistik ein zur Zeit häufig benutztes Stichwort ist, scheint das achtzehnte
Lessing divers—Soziale Milieus, Genderformationen, Ethnien und Religionen. Von Dirk Niefanger. Göttingen
Lessing divers—Soziale Milieus, Genderformationen, Ethnien und Religionen. Von Dirk Niefanger. Göttingen: Berghahn Books, 2023. 394 Seiten + 15 Abbildungen. €34,00 gebunden, €33,99 eBook. In many respects, the style and method of Dirk Niefanger’s latest book, Lessing divers , remind
Herder’s Concept of Culture
This article presents a critical examination of the concept of “culture” in the writings of Johann Gottfried Herder. Herder’s use of the term “culture” participates in a broader pan-European rethinking of the term as part of the emerging discipline of anthropology. In a first step, the paper offers a chronological reconstruction of Herder’s use of the concept, its Latin origins, and its links to theories of climate and geography. As a second step…
Orientalism, Europe’s Borderlands, and the Possibility of Genocide in Franz Werfel’s Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933)
Introduction
In his 2022 Tales from the Borderlands , Omer Bartov proposes the term “borderlands” to come to a better understanding of the political and cultural specifics of the geographical part of Europe that has long been called its “East.”[1][1] It is an area the history of which, so Bartov shows
Remembering and Narrating the “Bloodlands” in Josef Haslinger’s Jáchymov (2011)[Die “Bloodlands” in Josef Haslingers Jáchymov (2011) erinnern und erzählen]
Josef Haslinger’s novel Jáchymov (2011) engages with a particular troubling episode of Czechoslovakia’s immediate postwar history: the arrest of the entire national ice hockey team on 13 March 1950 and its members’ subsequent imprisonment and condemnation to work in the uranium mines of Jáchymov, having been accused of treason, criticism of the regime, and the intention to emigrate. In the novel, an aging publisher in poor health, Anselm Findeise…
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