Dirk Wiemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 790309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Wiemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiemann |
| SIGNATURE | WIEMANN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8385-9686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Critic as Producer (?)
Adiga, Aravind
Herkunft aus der wohlhabenden Mittelschicht Südindiens; aufgewachsen dort und in Australien; Anglistikstudium an der Columbia University, New York und am Magdalene College, Oxford; ab 2000 journalistische Tätigkeit, u. a. als Südasienkorrespondent für Time und Financial Times; ab 2006 als freischaffender Journalist und Schriftsteller in Mumbai; neben Rana Dasgupta bedeutendster Vertreter der jüngsten indo-englischen Erzählliteratur.
Layer after layer
When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a 'world text': a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain's imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent fro…
Postcolonial world literature
Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to…
Postcolonial Literatures in English
The term 'postcolonial literatures in English' designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved f
Postcolonial Futures
Postcolonialism often seems to be concerned with the past. While a critical view of the past, and in particular a critique of the history established by imperial powers, is a crucial part of postcolonial work, a simplistic reduction of the ‘postcolonial’ to dealing with the past is itself the result of colonialism’s temporality, of colonizers’ strategic use and conceptions of time. As many postcolonialist critics have argued, colonialist temporal…
Interlude
In postcolonial studies, the term has been applied to a wide range of contexts of domination. Empires have been categorized as ancient or modern (e. g., the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire, respectively), colonial or postcolonial (the Portuguese Empire and global Empire), empires of rule and empires of settlement (the Soviet Union is an example of the former; the French Empire and British Empire were both), pre-industrial and post-indust…
Postcolonial Oceans
In the Western literary imagination, oceans are overwhelmingly the space of White male endeavor. From William Shakespeare’s Prospero to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, from Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab to Joseph Conrad’s Charles Marlowe, the heroes and anti-heroes of canonic seafaring narratives, be they aristocrats or traders, captains, sailors or castaways, figure as the core agents of Western globalization. Even if increasingly haunted by th…
Interlude
Epistemic violence is a concept introduced to postcolonial studies by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988, see also ch. 5). Originally, Michel Foucault developed the idea of the episteme in Western thought in History of Madness and continued its exploration in The Order of Things. According to his definition, an episteme is the anonymous codification and structure which determines the knowledge for…
Transformation of ‘Culture’
Focusing on a selection of reports and comments on a range of international cultural conferences held between 1941 and 1949, this article traces how the deployment of the term ‘culture’ underwent significant changes that tie in with the consolidation and subsequent Cold-War collapse of the anti-fascist consensus. As a consequence of the emergent hegemony of an anti-totalitarian orthodoxy in the Western sphere of influence, the few individuals who…
Exilliteratur in Großbritannien 1933 - 1945
South Asian Christian Diaspora
Genres of Modernity
Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English. In opposition to the entrenc…
From Forked Tongue to Forked Tongue
In The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie draws heavily on Milton's Paradise Lost. However, unlike other postcolonial writers and theorists such as David Dabydeen and Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rushdie does not primarily polemicize against Milton as an embodiment of Europe's alleged cultural supremacy. Instead, his scattered references and allusions to Paradise Lost — especially to the figures of Satan, Adam and Eve — encourage a rereading of Milton as an …
Exilliteratur in Großbritannien 1933 – 1945
Exilliteratur in Grossbritannien, 1933-1945
South Asian Christian Diaspora
Layer after layer
When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a 'world text': a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain's imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent fro…
Postcolonial world literature
Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to…
From Forked Tongue to Forked Tongue
In The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie draws heavily on Milton's Paradise Lost. However, unlike other postcolonial writers and theorists such as David Dabydeen and Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rushdie does not primarily polemicize against Milton as an embodiment of Europe's alleged cultural supremacy. Instead, his scattered references and allusions to Paradise Lost — especially to the figures of Satan, Adam and Eve — encourage a rereading of Milton as an …
Exilliteratur in Großbritannien 1933 – 1945
Exilliteratur in Grossbritannien, 1933-1945
From Forked Tongue to Forked Tongue
In The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie draws heavily on Milton's Paradise Lost. However, unlike other postcolonial writers and theorists such as David Dabydeen and Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rushdie does not primarily polemicize against Milton as an embodiment of Europe's alleged cultural supremacy. Instead, his scattered references and allusions to Paradise Lost — especially to the figures of Satan, Adam and Eve — encourage a rereading of Milton as an …
Genres of Modernity
Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English. In opposition to the entrenc…
South Asian Christian Diaspora
Exilliteratur in Großbritannien 1933 - 1945
Transformation of ‘Culture’
Focusing on a selection of reports and comments on a range of international cultural conferences held between 1941 and 1949, this article traces how the deployment of the term ‘culture’ underwent significant changes that tie in with the consolidation and subsequent Cold-War collapse of the anti-fascist consensus. As a consequence of the emergent hegemony of an anti-totalitarian orthodoxy in the Western sphere of influence, the few individuals who…
Postcolonial Literatures in English
The term 'postcolonial literatures in English' designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved f
Postcolonial Futures
Postcolonialism often seems to be concerned with the past. While a critical view of the past, and in particular a critique of the history established by imperial powers, is a crucial part of postcolonial work, a simplistic reduction of the ‘postcolonial’ to dealing with the past is itself the result of colonialism’s temporality, of colonizers’ strategic use and conceptions of time. As many postcolonialist critics have argued, colonialist temporal…
Interlude
In postcolonial studies, the term has been applied to a wide range of contexts of domination. Empires have been categorized as ancient or modern (e. g., the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire, respectively), colonial or postcolonial (the Portuguese Empire and global Empire), empires of rule and empires of settlement (the Soviet Union is an example of the former; the French Empire and British Empire were both), pre-industrial and post-indust…
Postcolonial Oceans
In the Western literary imagination, oceans are overwhelmingly the space of White male endeavor. From William Shakespeare’s Prospero to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, from Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab to Joseph Conrad’s Charles Marlowe, the heroes and anti-heroes of canonic seafaring narratives, be they aristocrats or traders, captains, sailors or castaways, figure as the core agents of Western globalization. Even if increasingly haunted by th…
Interlude
Epistemic violence is a concept introduced to postcolonial studies by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988, see also ch. 5). Originally, Michel Foucault developed the idea of the episteme in Western thought in History of Madness and continued its exploration in The Order of Things. According to his definition, an episteme is the anonymous codification and structure which determines the knowledge for…
Adiga, Aravind
Herkunft aus der wohlhabenden Mittelschicht Südindiens; aufgewachsen dort und in Australien; Anglistikstudium an der Columbia University, New York und am Magdalene College, Oxford; ab 2000 journalistische Tätigkeit, u. a. als Südasienkorrespondent für Time und Financial Times; ab 2006 als freischaffender Journalist und Schriftsteller in Mumbai; neben Rana Dasgupta bedeutendster Vertreter der jüngsten indo-englischen Erzählliteratur.
Layer after layer
When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a 'world text': a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain's imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent fro…
Postcolonial world literature
Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to…
The Critic as Producer (?)
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