Digital Journal for Philology
In Textpraxis # 20, Andree Michaelis-König examines the critical reactions of younger (post-)migrant authors to the recent debates on the concept of ›homeland‹ in his essay. He discusses to what extent authors such as Saša Stanišić, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, and Taudy Pathmanathan develop innovative alternative understandings of community.
Textpraxis publishes contributions from all philological disciplines on the topics of literature and society, theories of literary studies and literary studies and practice. Since Textpraxis is an Open Access Journal, all articles are immediately accessible for free.
A new issue of Textpraxis appears every six months. Responses to articles already published are highly appreciated and will be published continuously.
In the spirit of a collaborative scientific understanding, Textpraxis neglects an anonymous peer review process and instead leads reviewers and authors into a productive dialogue. Registered readers can participate in this dialogue through comments once the article has been published.
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How do new technological developments in the Digital Humanities alter our understanding of Literary Studies? And: Which perspectives do models and practices from the field of Literary Studies offer on digital methods? The interdisciplinary contributions in this special issue examine the complex and promising interplay of Literary Studies and Digital Humanities from different theoretical as well as practical angles.
We are accepting submissions! For our issue #20 (2.2022), proposals for contributions-both in German and English-are now open for the fields of literature and literary studies in practice (e.g. literature in museums, performances, theater practice, literature in the literary business, publishing, etc.) as well as literature and society (including gender studies, animal studies, sociological studies of literature, and many more). Please submit your abstracts of max. 500 words by May 02, 2022 to textpraxis@uni-muenster.de. Acepted abstracts will be informed by 06 May. Full length articles must be submitted, in accordance with scientific standards, by July 15, 2022, after which the open peer review process will begin. The issue will be published on November 01, 2022 on www.textpraxis.net.
In the winter semester 2022/2023, the lecture series GLAM (Guest Lectures in American Studies Münster) takes place at the English Department of the University of Münster. Four femal scientists will speak on topics such as "Leisure in the Postindustrial City: Gentrification and Literature" and "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling". The lecture series is open to the public and will be held via Zoom.
What role do plants play in Science Fiction literature and films? This question is addressed by the exhibition Eden? Plants between Science and Fiction, first on view in May in Münster and now in Tucson on the Campus of the University of Arizona. In addition to depictions of utopian gardens, lethal horror plants and vegetal eroticism, the exhibition focuses primarily on texts and films that speculate about plant agency.
The debate surrounding #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan has been continuously surging for over a year. It is time for a Textpraxis podcast: In this episode, we talk with Iuditha Balint (Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur and Kultur der Arbeitswelt in Dortmund), Kristin Eichhorn (Universität Stuttgart), and Mahshid Mayar (Universität Bielefeld) about the hashtag campaign, the WissenschaftsZeitVertragsGesetz, and working conditions in German academia.
In the second episode of our podcast »Philology under Discussion«, Immanuel Nover (Koblenz-Landau) and Kerstin Wilhelms (Münster) discuss the political dimension of pop music, addressing questions raised by the current special issue »The Sound of Germany« and discuss the German rapper Sookee and the rap-collective 187 Strassenbande. By putting these two side-by-side, Nover and Wilhelms read the political as a process of social negotiation, which considers the songs’ lyrical content but also the specific aesthetic techniques and processes that constitute their form.