Insularity

Katrin Dautel graduated in German Studies from the Universities Bonn and Florence and is now working as Assistant Lecturer at the Department of German at the University of Malta. Currently, she is working on a PhD project on space constructions and gender in contemporary German literature. Kathrin Schödel is Senior Lecturer at the Department of German, University of Malta, and is currently working on a book project on "Revolution and Femininity. Discourses on Revolution and Gender in Germany 1789 and 1918". She obtained her PhD from the University of Erlangen with a thesis on "Literary versus Political Memory" (published in 2010, Königshausen & Neumann). Her interest in insularity is related to her study of discursive constructions of the private versus the public sphere as well as her general interest in literature and politics.

K. Dautel/K. Schödel: Introduction - I. Theory: Mapping Insularity - K. Schödel: Forms of Insularity: Private Circles and Utopian Isles - M. Aquilina: Shores, Cliffs and Other Shifting Frames: The Island as a Trope of Non-Insularity - U. Stamm: Theoretical Ideas About Insularity and Literary Perspectives on Islands - C. Hilmes: Essay and Aphorism - The Archipelago and the Island among Literary Genres - J. Zimmermann: Sullivan's Island: An Exemplary Postcolonial Site - D. Vanderbeke: Islands in Space - II. German Literature: Aesthetic Reflections of Insularity - J. Vomhof: The Topos of Seduction in Rilke's The Island of the Sirens - E. Petropoulou: In Limbo. Of feathers, socks, butterflies and spools or the "form which things assume in oblivion". Metonymies of heterotopic experience in Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood around 1900 - A. Rösser: Troubled Hegemony. The Galiana in Lion Feuchtwanger's Die Jüdin von Toledo as Multicultural insula amoena and Heterotopian Model for Dealing with the Other - S. Zubarik: "Die sozialistische Umgestaltung einer Insel": The Novel Die Insel by Matthias Wegehaupt - K. Dautel: Cartography as "the Pleasure of the Symbolic" - Judith Schalansky's Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln - K. Bauer: Utopian Insularity and the Colonial Legacy of Heterotopian Empires. Christian Kracht's Novel Imperium - III. Maltese, English and French Literatures: Island Myths and Other Spaces - P. Mattern: Rabelais' Travelling Giant - J. Riquet: The Island as Territory: Darwin's Legacy in Island Myths from H.G. Wells to Amitav Ghosh - A. Grima: Double Insularity. Mamo's Quixotic Tale of Emigration - R. Spiteri: Laurent Ropa and Paul Achard: Second Thoughts on Colonial Encroachments - U. Hackenbruch: Mind Maps - Concepts of Insularity in American Post-War Writing - P. Arnds: Island as Forest, Forest as Island: Insularity and the Homo Sacer in William Golding and Michel Tournier - J. Corby: An Island No Man Is: Insularity without Subjectivity in Coetzee's Foe - D. Graziadei: "Une goutte de désert jettée à l'eau" - the Creation of Islands and Mythology in Contemporary Caribbean Literatures (Anglophone and Francophone Poetry) - IV. Interculturality and Intermediality: Insular Spaces between Cultures and Media - G. Schembri Bonaci: Insularity in the Arts. The Relationship between the Maltese Art Scene and the Development of Modern Art - H. Burggrabe: Sicily as Island of the "Between" in German language authors of the 20th Century - G. Lauri-Lucente: A Sleep and a Remembrance: Sicily and its Mythic Landscape in Film - A. Seidel-Arpaci: Islands for the Poor? German Allotment Gardens, Body Politic, and the Racialised Nation - R. Baumgartner: Utopia and the Illusion of Choice - Islands in Anno 2070