Spatial turns
Subtitle: space, place, and mobility in German literary and visual culture
By: edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel
Series: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik -- 75; Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik -- Bd. 75.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9789042030015
Subjects: Motion pictures; German Motion pictures; Cartography in literature; German literature; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Space in literature; Setting (Literature); Cities and towns in motion pictures; Place (Philosophy) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Illustrative passages in German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel; title: Mapping spaces.  Mapping vision: Goethe, cartography, and the novel / Andrew Piper ; Just how naughty was Berlin? The geography of prostitution and female sexuality in Curt Moreck's Erotic travel guide / Jill Suzanne Smith ; Mapping a human geography: spatiality in Uwe Johnson's Mutmassungen über Jakob [Speculations about Jakob, 1959] / Jennifer Marston William ; Historical space: Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt [Measuring the world, 2005] / Katharina Gerstenberger; title: Spaces of the urban. Gendered urban spaces: cultural mediations on the city in eighteenth-century German women's writing / Diana Spokiene ; The roots of German theater's "spatial turn": Gerhart Hauptmann's social-spatial dramas / Amy Strahler Holzapfel ; Urban mediations: the theoretical space of Siegfried Kracauer's Ginster / Eric Jarosinski ; Protesting the globalized metropolis: the local as counterspace in recent Berlin literature / Bastian Heinsohn ; Transnational cinema and the ruins of Berlin and Havana: Die neue Kunst, Ruinen zu bauen [The new art of making ruins, 2007] and Suite Habana (2003) / Jennifer Ruth Hosek; title: Spaces of encounter. From the desert to the city and back: nomads and the spaces of Goethe's West-östlicher Divan [West-eastern divan, 1819/1827] / Kamaal Haque ; Not all who wander are lost: Alfred Döblin's Reise in Polen [Journey to Poland, 1925] / June J. Hwang ; The feminine topography of Zion: mapping Gertrud Kolmar's poetic imagination / Carola Daffner ; Jewish Colonia as Heimat in the Pampas: Robert Schopflocher's explorations of thirdspace in Argentina / Will Lehman ; Rewriting home and migration: spatiality in the narratives of Emine Sevgi Özdamar / Silke Schade ; Transcultural space and music: Fatih Akin's Crossing the bridge: the sound of Istanbul (2005) / Barbara Kosta; title: Visualized space. The cult of the cold and the gendered body in mountain films / Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey ; Panoptic paranoia and phantasmagoria: Fritz Lang's nocturnal city / Steven Jacobs ; Subjective topographies: Berlin in post-wall photography / Miriam Paeslack ; Kreuzberg as relational place: respatializing the "ghetto" in Bettina Blümner's Prinzessinnenbad [Pool of princesses, 2007] / Jaimey Fisher ; Digital geographies: Berlin in the ages of new media / Todd Presner.