Title: W.G. Sebald : Schreiben ex patria = expatriate writing /
Authors: Fischer, Gerhard, 1945-
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Sebald, W. G. Criticism and interpretation Congresses.
Abstract: This volume presents the work of internationally renowned scholars from Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, the UK and the US. The focus on W.G. Sebald{u2019}s writing as that of an expatriate author offers a fresh and productive approach to Sebald scholarship. In one way or another, all 28 essays in this innovative, bi-lingual collection take up the notion of Sebald{u2019}s experience as an expatriate writer: be it in the analysis of intertextual, transmedial and generic border crossings, on the 2exposure to the other3 and the experience of alterity, on the question of identity construction and performance, on affinities with other expatriate writers, on the recurring topics of 2home3, 2exile3, 2dislocation3 and 2migration3, or on the continuing work of 2memory3 to work through and to preserve the consciousness of a destructive past that has informed the childhood as much as the adult life-world of the author. - From publisher's website.
Contents: Introduction : W.G. Sebald's expatriate experience and his literary beginnings / Gerhard Fischer -- Schreiben ex patria : W.G. Sebald und die Konstruktion einer literarischen Identität / Gerhard Fischer -- "Lines of flight" : history and territory in The Rings of Saturn / Judith Ryan -- W.G. Sebald : the ambulatory narrative and the poetics of digression / J.J. Long -- No exile : crossing the border with Sebald and Améry / Martin Klebes -- Als Deutscher in der Fremde : Heimat, Geschichte und Natur bei W.G. Sebald / Gunther Pakendorf -- Blinder Fleck : zur Reflexion der Gewalt der Darstellung bei W.G. Sebald / Bettina Mosbach -- Against the integration of atrocity into disaster : W.G. Sebald's work of memory / Karen Remmler -- History in things : Sebald and Benjamin on transience and detritus / Gay Hawkins -- "The surest engagement with memory lies in its perpetual irresolution" : the work of W.G. Sebald as counter-monument / Claire Feehily --^