Kai Wiegandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 643553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Wiegandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiegandt |
| SIGNATURE | WIEGANDT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barenboim-Said Akademie , Französische Straße 33d, 10117 Berlin , Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abdulrazak Gurnah and German Colonialism
Complex Implication in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives
This paper argues that implication in German colonialism is a central concern in Gurnah’s Afterlives (2020). The novel suggests that German colonialism implicated in its crimes the colonized population and third parties who believed themselves mere bystanders – a process that standard accounts usually do not allow us to see since they are premised on the rigid positions of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. In the words of Michael Rothberg, on w…
Chapter 8 Western Migrants in Hong Kong
Introduction
If it is true that no person ever experienced exactly the same as another, it is also true that no person ever experienced something that did not resemble someone else’s experience. Speaking of gen
Fiction's gothic imagination of reverse domination
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reverse colonization narratives, subsumed under the rubric “imperial gothic” by Patrick Brantlinger, featured invasions from the colonial periphery to the imperial centre. This essay argues that recent decades have seen the emergence of similar “reverse domination narratives”. The narratives feature the migration of professionals from the Global North to the new economic centres in the Global South, wh…
The Transnational in Literary Studies
This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters d…
Transnational in Literary Studies
J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human
Guilt, shame and the politics of moral change in Antjie Krog’s and Zoë Wicomb’s literary responses to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This article argues that Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull (1998) and Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story (2000) attempt to lift feelings of guilt and shame from the victims of apartheid and to instil these feelings in those who ought to feel them: in the perpetrators, but also in the majority of whites and some coloureds who benefited from apartheid in one way or another. Both authors stress the value of moral shame for reforming South Africa’s society a…
I too might once have been a prisoner”
The oppressors and men complicit with oppression in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands, Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist and Breyten Breytenbach’s The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist have markedly different personalities, occupy diverse social settings and become alive to the reader through different literary techniques, but they strikingly resemble each other, because they are paranoid, delusional and plagued by repressed feelings of guilt. T…
Guilt, shame and the politics of moral change in Antjie Krog’s and Zoë Wicomb’s literary responses to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This article argues that Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull (1998) and Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story (2000) attempt to lift feelings of guilt and shame from the victims of apartheid and to instil these feelings in those who ought to feel them: in the perpetrators, but also in the majority of whites and some coloureds who benefited from apartheid in one way or another. Both authors stress the value of moral shame for reforming South Africa’s society a…
I too might once have been a prisoner”
The oppressors and men complicit with oppression in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands, Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist and Breyten Breytenbach’s The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist have markedly different personalities, occupy diverse social settings and become alive to the reader through different literary techniques, but they strikingly resemble each other, because they are paranoid, delusional and plagued by repressed feelings of guilt. T…
Guilt, shame and the politics of moral change in Antjie Krog’s and Zoë Wicomb’s literary responses to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This article argues that Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull (1998) and Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story (2000) attempt to lift feelings of guilt and shame from the victims of apartheid and to instil these feelings in those who ought to feel them: in the perpetrators, but also in the majority of whites and some coloureds who benefited from apartheid in one way or another. Both authors stress the value of moral shame for reforming South Africa’s society a…
J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human
The Transnational in Literary Studies
This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters d…
Transnational in Literary Studies
Chapter 8 Western Migrants in Hong Kong
Introduction
If it is true that no person ever experienced exactly the same as another, it is also true that no person ever experienced something that did not resemble someone else’s experience. Speaking of gen
Fiction's gothic imagination of reverse domination
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reverse colonization narratives, subsumed under the rubric “imperial gothic” by Patrick Brantlinger, featured invasions from the colonial periphery to the imperial centre. This essay argues that recent decades have seen the emergence of similar “reverse domination narratives”. The narratives feature the migration of professionals from the Global North to the new economic centres in the Global South, wh…
Abdulrazak Gurnah and German Colonialism
Complex Implication in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives
This paper argues that implication in German colonialism is a central concern in Gurnah’s Afterlives (2020). The novel suggests that German colonialism implicated in its crimes the colonized population and third parties who believed themselves mere bystanders – a process that standard accounts usually do not allow us to see since they are premised on the rigid positions of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. In the words of Michael Rothberg, on w…
Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Law (3 works)