Department of English

Autorschaft und digitale Literatur widmet sich dem Phänomen der Neukonfiguration der Trias Autor, Leser und Text in Literatur, die den Computer als ästhetisches Ausdrucksmedium nutzt. Dabei beantwortet der Band die als beängstigend attribuierte Frage nach dem Autor dieses "neuen Etwas", indem erstmals ein systematisches Beschreibungsverfahren für das Zusammenspiel aller an der Textproduktion und -rezeption Beteiligten vorgestellt wird. Mit dem Entwurf des theoretischen Modells des Textuellen Handlungsraums überbrückt Zimmermann auch die bisher angenommene strukturelle Distanz zwischen gedruckter und digitaler Literatur. Der detaillierten Analyse exemplarischer kanonischer Werke der englischsprachigen digitalen Literatur ist ein grundlegender komparatistischer Überblick über die Entwicklung dieser Literaturform vorangestellt, die in ihren definierenden Eigenschaften gleichsam als Fortsetzung einer viel älteren Literaturgeschichte aufgefasst wird. Auch die Geschichte von Autorschaft und der Reflexion über Autorschaft wird von Zimmermann ausführlich nachgezeichnet. Neben einer umfassenden Diskussion der bisherigen Forschung zur Autorschaft digitaler Literatur bespricht der Band bekannte Probleme der Autor-Leser-Konfiguration wie nichtlineares und kombinatorisches Erzählen, Zwischenwesen wie den Wreader und kollaboratives Schreiben. Von den Ergebnissen der Analyse getragen, diskutiert Zimmermann schließlich Fragen zu Tradition und Theorie angesichts der elektronischen Medienpraxis, zu rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und zum Mangel ernstzunehmender digitaler Literatur in Deutschland, sowie zur Produktivität theoretischer Modellierungen. Ein umfassender Index, ein Glossar und ein Kapitel über die Hauptbegriffe im Spannungsfeld um Autorschaft in digitaler Literatur erleichtern auch Neulingen in diesem Bereich die Lektüre.

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Evil, Women, and the Feminine investigates the simultaneous suspicion, divinity, purity, and messy procreative paradigms that frequent conceptions of the feminine. The Evil, Women, and the Feminine’s interdisciplinary mission guides this collection, through subjects as diverse as ancient Greek medicine and contemporary female aggression, or the inextricably linked associations as witchcraft and the iconic femme fatale. Endeavoring to educate, expand, and embolden the struggle to deconstruct these conflations, the compilation serves penetrating dialogue about what it means to be human, in body and embodied.

The phenomenon of “tiny houses,” loosely defined as dwellings ranging between 65 and 120 square feet, has rapidly accumulated interest among economically and environmentally conscious individuals. The movement’s recent popularity highlights the commodification of sustainability in a market that continues to shelter economic and class privilege, despite that the movement itself emerges from a desire to consume less and contribute to community more.
Reading recent rhetoric surrounding the movement – with particular attention to the movement’s invocations of Henry David Thoreau – this essay examines the ways in which tiny house living contradicts its own rhetorical claims. However, in that contradiction, the movement has the potential to build a responsive environmental ethic as it focalizes dissonance between green-washing rhetoric and the complex realities of tiny house living. In fact, the experience of living in a tiny house may be even more Thoreauvian than the movement acknowledges with regard to issues of mobility and waste. Drawing from my position as builder, owner and inhabitant of a tiny house, as well as foundational sociological and environmental scholarship, this paper examines the tiny house movement’s privileged foundations but also investigates its potency for environmental and social justice issues, urban sustainability strategies, and land ethics.
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Henry David Thoreau’s legacy has been cited as inspiring social experiments in “self-reliance,” simplicity movements, and American environmentalism–all of which converge in the contemporary tiny house phenomenon. The tiny house movement is a trend that advocates living simply in small spaces and enthusiasts often refer to Thoreau as the movement’s patron saint. Written from the position of a tiny house builder and dweller, this chapter discusses the tiny house movement’s commitments, history, and practices and the relevant differences and similarities the movement holds to Thoreau’s life and writings.
Despite a mutual inheritance of romantic rhetoric and entanglement in systems they ostensibly reject, Thoreau and the tiny house movement share fundamental ideals that prize simplicity, the value of community, a desire to reject private property laws, and a will to transform cultures of consumption. The benediction of Thoreau may emphasize the privilege in American environmental movements like the tiny house craze, but his writings also inform radical possibilities for environmental action.

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Elemental Ecocriticism is a playful, dense, and at times dizzying experiment that enacts what it conceptualizes: the fecundity of thinking with the classical elements of earth, air, water, and fire. This kind of elemental thinking rejects the fixity implied by the periodic table, implicates and decenters the human, and refuses reduced-to-commodity worlds. The collection itself was conceived in this liveliness. It comes out of a collaboration traversing geographies, conferences, a postmedieval special issue, and a symposium. The contributors to this volume were asked, via blind selection, to make acquaintance with various forces of matter that materialize when thinking...(full text available through _Environmental History_).

Like David Grann's 2017 Killers of the Flower Moon, John Joseph Mathews' 1934 Bildungsroman novel Sundown considers the Osage Reign of Terror. Both explore the countless murders of Osage for their oil rights as a gruesome example in a longer history of structural violence linking the settler state to resource extraction. Yet, Sundown's fiction goes beyond the realities Grann describes. Using the narrative genre most associated with the logics of individualism, modernity, and assimilation, Sundown stories survival beyond the end of the settler-state and its extraction economies. Matthews' novel follows the structure of a novel of formation, known as the Bildungsroman, yet departs from the genre’s assimilatory arc to expose, challenge, and prophecy beyond the genocidal logic typical to the individual-centered Euro-American genre. This essay explores how, though the Bildungsroman typically privileges conversation as a sign of "development," the novel instead turns to silences to anticipate what Stephanie LeMenager calls "the last gasp of oil aspirations" which seem so deafening today. Indeed, the novel regards silence as more than just a powerful marker of acquiescence to a culture of violence gasping for short-term gain. Sundown leverages Bildungsroman expectations to explore silence as a complex form of communication that can refuse to be moved, refuse to be speechless, refuse to go away. In this, it offers a rich historical antecedent for contemporary decolonial environmental and social justice movements.

In the United States what constitutes "public lands" has never been stable. Notions of the public and their commons were a fickle matter of political contest and power relations before the beginning of what is currently called America. This article takes two examples of contemporary debates over public lands as paradigmatic case studies for the ways apocalyptic appeals populate and naturalize the “settler commons” across the spectrum of US politics (Fortier). Through the comparison, it finds a convergence in what are often seen as irreconcilable differences between leftist environmentalisms and libertarian land-use logics. Apocalyptic depictions of the coming or in-progress collapse of the commons naturalize a space that both white environmentalists and white nationalists share. It then turns to apocalyptic imaginations of public space beyond the settler commons, concluding in a tentative example of the commons as indeed not static, not settled, but as an invitation to ongoing practice-based relationships of responsibility that require some of us--like me--to learn in public. Public lands, I find, are the spaces in which we are held accountable to very particular publics. In the patois of pithy prose, public lands are a verb.

In _The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism_, Gerald Horne once again earns his reputation as a nuanced transnational historian of race and class. In this his thirtieth book, Horne demonstrates that modernity arrived in the seventeenth century on the three horsemen of the apocalypse: slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism. Through a focus on English colonial projects, Horne proves these phenomena to be inseparable and interlocking, rather than, for instance, separate pillars of a single structure. Horne's deft archival work reveals rebellion to be a powerful and primary historical force, and clarifies whiteness as a category of convenience used to quell the vibrant cross-class and cross-racial revolutions which erupted throughout the seventeenth century-from England to Jamaica, Barbados to Boston-rebellions that reverberated through the formation of the United States forward to this day. In Horne's adroit analysis, seventeenth-century merchant class revolts against the monarchy, long thought to be paeans to democracy and liberalism, are shown to be inextricable from the violent enslavement of Africans and Native Americans.