Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kunow
Kontakt
| Anschrift: | Am Neuen Palais 10 Haus 19, Zimmer 1.20 14469 Potsdam |
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| E-Mail: | rkunow@rz.uni-potsdam.de |
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Forschung
Forschung
- Transnationalisms (Diaspora, Migration, Identity Politics)
- The Cultural Imagination of Aging
- History as Fiction
- Transformations of Literary Representation
- Narratives of Illness
- The Indian Diaspora in the US and Canada
Lehre
Lehre
- American Cultural History From the Puritans to the Present
- US Fiction 1800-
- American Poetry
- Ethnic American Literature
- Cultures of/in Globalization
Ausgewählte Lehrveranstaltungen
- "The American City as Model and Text" (SS 00)
- 'The White Man's Indian': Representations of Native Americans in US Culture" (WS 00/01)
- "After Multiculturalism: Diversity, Difference and Conflict in the United States" (SS 01)
- "Globalization: America in the World Economy" (SS 01)
- "Fictions of the Jazz Age" (WS 01/02)
- "Romanticism and Nationalism in Early 19 th Century America" (SS 02)
- " American Spaces: A Cultural And Historical Geography of the United States" (WS 02/03)
- "Witches, Women, and Community: From the Salem Witch Crisis of 1692 to Today" (SS 03)
- "The 'Culturalist Turn' in American Studies" (SS 03)
Publikationen
Monographien
Herausgeberschaften
Representation and Decoration in American Culture. Ed. Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2005.
Global Fictions. Ed. Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow. Thematisches Heft der Zeitschrift Amerikastudien/American Studies 47:2 (2002).
The Decolonizing Pen: The Fiction of Salman Rushdie. Ed. Liselotte Glage and Rüdiger Kunow. Trier: wvt, 2001.
Artikel
Transnationalisms
"The Stranger at the Door: Mobility, Arrival, Hospitality." Only Connect: Texts, Places, Politics. Ed. Dirk Wiemann et al. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2008. 157-68.
„Spaces Grown too Large for the Self: Arriving in the Global City.“ Postmodern New York City: Figuring Spaces / Raum – Transformationen. Ed. Günter H. Lenz and Utz Riese. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2003. 181-202.
"From 'Rootes' to 'Routes': Ethnic Fiction between Comfort Zones and Danger Zones." Multiculturalism in Contemporary Societies: Perspectives on Difference and Transdifference. Ed. Helmbrecht Breinig, Jürgen Gebhardt and Klaus Lösch. Reihe A, Geisteswissenschaften, Band 101. Erlanger Forschungen: Erlangen, 2002. 195-228.
„At the Borderline: Placing and Displacing Communities in Postcolonial Narratives“, in Postmodernism and the Fin de Siècle. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 175-203.
„‘Detached ... from both worlds, not one’: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and the Postcolonial Novel.“ The Decolonizing Pen: The Fiction of Salman Rushdie. Ed. Liselotte Glage und Rüdiger Kunow. Trier: wvt, 2001,. 87-103.
The Cultural Imagination of Aging
"The Coming of Age: The Descriptive Organization of Later Life." Representation and Decoration in a Postmodern Age. Ed. Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009. 295-309.
„‘Ins Graue’: Zur kulturellen Konstruktion von Altern und Alter.“ Alter und Geschlecht. Ed. Heike Hartung. Bielefeld: transcript, 2005. 21-43.
History as Fiction
"Making Sense of History: The Sense of the Past in Postmodern Times." Making Sense: The Role of the Reader in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann. München: Fink, 1989. 169-97.
"Without Telos or Subject? Coover's and Doctorow's Presentations of History." Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies. Ed. Günter Lenz et al. Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 1990. 372-90.
"Beginning/Ending/Rewriting History: Historiographical Scenarios in the Multiculturalism Debate." American Studies in Germany: European Contexts and Intercultural Relations. Ed. Günter Lenz and Klaus Milich. Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 1995. 77-95.
"The Return of Historical Narratives in Contemporary American Culture." Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung. Anglistische Forschungen, Bd. 233. Heidelberg: Winter, 1996. 255-73.
"Nineteenth-Century History for the Twentieth-Century Self: Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls." Democracy and the Arts in the United States. Ed. Alfred Hornung, Reinhard R. Doerries and Gerhard Hoffmann. München: Fink, 1996. 205-18.
"'Emotion Recollected in Tranquility'? Representing the Holocaust in Fiction." Emotion in Postmodernism. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann, Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Winter, 1997. 247-69.
"'No Idea of a Great Historical Performance': Stephen Crane's Cuban War Stories as Revisionist Histories." Re-Visioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction. Ed. Bernd Engler and Oliver Scheiding. Trier: wvt, 1998. 159-82.
"Manifest History and Its Blind Spots: Historical Fiction and National Memory in 19th-Century America." Remembering the Individual/Regional/National Past. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1999. 59-76.
"Simulacrum as Sub-Text: Fiction Writing and Media Representations of American History." Simulacrum America. The USA and the Popular Media. Ed. Elisabeth Kraus and Carolin Auer. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 23-36.
with Gerhard Hoffmann, Alfred Hornung, "'Modern,' 'Postmodern' and 'Contemporary' as Criteria for the Analysis of 20th-Century Literature." Amerikastudien/American Studies 22 (1977): 19-46; rpt. in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Manfred Pütz and Peter Freese. Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984.12-37; dt. überarb. Version in Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann, 3 Bde., Bd. 1. München: UTB, 1988. 7-43.
with Alfred Hornung, "'Modern,' 'Postmodern,' and 'Contemporary': A Select Bibliography." Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Manfred Pütz and Peter Freese. Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984. 214-27; überarb. und aktualisierte Version in Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman. Bd. 3. 375-401.
with Alfred Hornung, "Der amerikanische Gegenwartsroman und seine kulturelle Matrix." Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman. Bd. 1. 45-80.
"Postmodernes Experiment im Spannungsfeld literarischer und sozialer Klischees." Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman. Bd. 1. 342-63.
"The Rhetoric of Crisis in Contemporary American Culture." Amerikastudien/American Studies 32 (1987): 467-80.
"'You have it but you don't have it': John Ashbery's Guarded Affirmations of Life." Affirmation and Negation in Contemporary American Culture. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung. Anglistische Forschungen, Bd. 225. Heidelberg: Winter, 1994. 251-71.
Das Klischee als kognitive Strategie im literarischen Text, Phil. Diss. Würzburg, 1981.
Narratives of Illness
„Epidemie als Signifikation: Die sogenannte ‘AIDS-Krise’ und die US-amerikanische Literatur.“ Literatur und soziale Erfahrung am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Christa Ebert und Brigitte Sändig. Ost-West-Diskurse, 4 (2003): 77-99.
"Nur eine Frage der Zeit? - Zur Repräsentation von AIDS in der US-amerikanischen Literatur." (in einem Sammelband)
The Indian Diaspora in the US and Canada
„The Enigma of Arrival.” Worlds in the Making: Constructivism and Postmodern Knowledge. Ed. Edyta Lorek-Jezinska, Teresa Siek-Piskozub, and Katarzyna Wieckowska. Torun: UMK, 2006. 381-99.
„Architect of the Cosmopolitan Dream: Salman Rushdie.“ Amerikastudien/American Studies 51:3 (2006): 369-85.
„Babylondons of the Mind: Salman Rushdie's Fictions Between Post-National Belonging and Global Unbelonging.“ Mediating Indian Writing in English. Ed. Bernd-Peter Lange and Mala Pandurang. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2006. 113-40.
„People of the Crossing: The Subcontinental Diaspora in the United States.“ Transgressions: Cultural Interventions in the Global Manifold. Ed. Renate Brosch and Rüdiger Kunow. Trier: wvt, 2005. 39-58.
„Eating Indian(s): Food, Representation, and the Indian Diaspora in the United States.“ Eating Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Food. Ed. Tobias Döring, Markus Heide, and Susanne Mühleisen. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2003. 151-75.
"Körper im Transit: Migrantinnen in der Literatur der indischen Diaspora in den USA." Potsdamer Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 5.1-2 (2001): 75-88.
"The Indian Diaspora in the United States." (in einem Sammelband)
"Eating Indian(s): Food, Representation, and the Indian Diaspora in the United States." Eating Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Food. Eds. Tobias Döring, Markus Heide and Susanne Mühleisen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003. 151-75.
with Gerhard Hoffmann, Alfred Hornung, "'Modern,' 'Postmodern' and 'Contemporary' as Criteria for the Analysis of 20th-Century Literature." Amerikastudien/American Studies 22 (1977): 19-46; rpt. in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Manfred Pütz and Peter Freese. Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984.12-37; dt. überarb. Version in Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann, 3 Bde., Bd. 1. München: UTB, 1988. 7-43.
with Alfred Hornung, "'Modern,' 'Postmodern,' and 'Contemporary': A Select Bibliography." Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Manfred Pütz and Peter Freese. Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984. 214-27; überarb. und aktualisierte Version in Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman. Bd. 3. 375-401.
with Alfred Hornung, "Der amerikanische Gegenwartsroman und seine kulturelle Matrix." Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman. Bd. 1. 45-80.
"Postmodernes Experiment im Spannungsfeld literarischer und sozialer Klischees." Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman. Bd. 1. 342-63.
"The Rhetoric of Crisis in Contemporary American Culture." Amerikastudien/American Studies 32 (1987): 467-80.
"'You have it but you don't have it': John Ashbery's Guarded Affirmations of Life." Affirmation and Negation in Contemporary American Culture. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung. Anglistische Forschungen, Bd. 225. Heidelberg: Winter, 1994. 251-71.
Das Klischee als kognitive Strategie im literarischen Text, Phil. Diss. Würzburg, 1981.
Narratives of Illness
„Epidemie als Signifikation: Die sogenannte ‘AIDS-Krise’ und die US-amerikanische Literatur.“ Literatur und soziale Erfahrung am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Christa Ebert und Brigitte Sändig. Ost-West-Diskurse, 4 (2003): 77-99.
"Nur eine Frage der Zeit? - Zur Repräsentation von AIDS in der US-amerikanischen Literatur." (in einem Sammelband)
The Indian Diaspora in the US and Canada
„The Enigma of Arrival.” Worlds in the Making: Constructivism and Postmodern Knowledge. Ed. Edyta Lorek-Jezinska, Teresa Siek-Piskozub, and Katarzyna Wieckowska. Torun: UMK, 2006. 381-99.
„Architect of the Cosmopolitan Dream: Salman Rushdie.“ Amerikastudien/American Studies 51:3 (2006): 369-85.
„Babylondons of the Mind: Salman Rushdie's Fictions Between Post-National Belonging and Global Unbelonging.“ Mediating Indian Writing in English. Ed. Bernd-Peter Lange and Mala Pandurang. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2006. 113-40.
„People of the Crossing: The Subcontinental Diaspora in the United States.“ Transgressions: Cultural Interventions in the Global Manifold. Ed. Renate Brosch and Rüdiger Kunow. Trier: wvt, 2005. 39-58.
„Eating Indian(s): Food, Representation, and the Indian Diaspora in the United States.“ Eating Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Food. Ed. Tobias Döring, Markus Heide, and Susanne Mühleisen. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2003. 151-75.
"Körper im Transit: Migrantinnen in der Literatur der indischen Diaspora in den USA." Potsdamer Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 5.1-2 (2001): 75-88.
"The Indian Diaspora in the United States." (in einem Sammelband)
"Eating Indian(s): Food, Representation, and the Indian Diaspora in the United States." Eating Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Food. Eds. Tobias Döring, Markus Heide and Susanne Mühleisen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003. 151-75.
Konferenzen
3. Tag der Amerikas [with Dept. of Romance Literature and Languages (Ette)] 26 January 2001
"Toleranz und Differenz. Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik" [with Dept. of Philosophy (Menke) & Dept. of Romance Literature and Languages (Ette)] 9 Febuary 2001
4. Tag der Amerikas [with Dept. of Romance Literature and Languages (Ette)] 31 January 2002
"Fulbright at 50 - Focus on Potsdam: Transnational Cultures - Globalization and the United States at the Turn of the Century" 7 June 2002
"Globalization, Multiculturalism, and Democracy" [with Dept. of Philosophy (Menke)] 6-7 Dezember 2002
