Ziffern im Schein der Wunderlampe”
Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonial Fictions in Dieter Kühn’s Und der Sultan von Oman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10498015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirkland Alexander Fulk (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 118-137 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1939 • E-ISSN: 1911-026X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/seminar.53.2.02 |
| OpenAlex | W2612664973 |
| Language | DE |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines economic and narrative crises through the lens of Dieter Kühn’s 1979 novel Und der Sultan von Oman. It argues that the oil crisis of 1973 set in motion an exploration of neo-liberal capitalism together with its inherent neo-colonial traits. More specifically, this essay contends that this moment of economic, epistemological, and representational crisis discloses both the fictionalization and mediatization of economics and post-colonial depictions of Other worlds in the West German novel. In this way, literature not only becomes complicit in the narrative structures of the neo-liberal economy but is also capable of making economic crises representable and understandable because of this very culpability
Art · Capitalism · Colonialism · Culpability · Economic history · German · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · German Economic Analysis & Policies · History · Law · Philosophy · Renewable Energy and Sustainability
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| Highly cited | No |
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