journal: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur

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Published since January 1, 1976

Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur

ISSN: 1865-9128

Edited by: Maximilian Benz, Kai Bremer, Walter Erhart, Barbara Picht, Meike G. Werner

About this journal

Die Anfänge der Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur in den 1970er Jahren standen im Zeichen einer interdisziplinären Begegnung und eines veränderten Literaturbegriffs. Inzwischen haben sich die Diskurse und Methoden in den Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften sehr stark gewandelt, gleichwohl ist die Hauptfrage einer sozialgeschichtlich orientierten Literaturgeschichte – die nach dem Verhältnis zwischen literarischen Texten und sozialhistorischen Kontexten – unverändert aktuell.

Diese Frage in all ihren Facetten und unter verschiedensten Aspekten untersuchen die Beiträge des Internationalen Archivs für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL), das 1976 von Georg Jäger, Alberto Martino und Friedrich Sengle gegründet wurde. Sein Spektrum umfasst die gesamte deutsche Literaturgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt dabei den literaturtheoretischen Grundlagen der Literaturgeschichte, insbesondere den methodischen und thematischen Berührungspunkten zwischen der Literaturwissenschaft und den Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Zu den Schwerpunkten einer erweiterten Sozialgeschichte der Literatur zählen deshalb nach wie vor Buch-, Verlags- und Kommunikationsgeschichte, Lese(r)forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie die Konstellationen von Literatur und Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert.

IASL veröffentlicht Aufsätze und Beiträge zu aktuellen Forschungsfragen in deutscher und englischer Sprache. Gelegentlich erscheinen thematisch zusammenhängende Themenschwerpunkte; darüber hinaus werden in gesonderten Rubriken aktuelle Forschungsdiskussionen und in Planung befindliche Forschungsprojekte sowie neue Materialien und Dokumente zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (Dokumentation) vorgestellt. Alle in IASL veröffentlichten Texte unterliegen einem strengen Begutachtungsverfahren (peer review).

Rezensionen erscheinen auf der von IASL unabhängigen Internet-Plattform von IASL online (www.iaslonline.de/), einer kooperierenden, aber selbstständigen elektronischen Zeitschrift, die auch intermediale Forschungsbeiträge veröffentlicht.

Editorials der neuen Herausgeber*innen aus den Jgg. 47 (2022) und 48 (2023):
https://doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2022-0001
https://doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2023-0007
https://doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2023-0008

History

Das Internationale Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL) wurde 1976 von Georg Jäger, Alberto Martino und Friedrich Sengle gegründet, die Herausgeber der Jahre 1976 bis 2000 waren die Germanisten Wolfgang Frühwald (München) und Georg Jäger (München), der Historiker Dieter Langewiesche (Tübingen) und der Literaturwissenschaftler Alberto Martino (Wien). 2001 wurde das Herausgeberteam – nach dem Ausscheiden von Wolfgang Frühwald – durch den Germanisten Walter Erhart (Greifswald) ergänzt, 2002 durch die Germanisten Norbert Bachleitner (Wien) und Christian Begemann (Bayreuth) sowie den Historiker Gangolf Hübinger (Frankfurt / Oder), 2018 durch die Historikerin Barbara Picht (Berlin) und die Literaturwissenschaftlerin Meike Werner (Nashville). 2022 ergänzten die Germanisten Maximilian Benz (Bielefeld) und Kai Bremer (Berlin) das Herausgeberteam. Seit 2022 wird das IASL herausgegeben von Maximilian Benz (Bielefeld), Kai Bremer (Berlin), Walter Erhart (Bielefeld), Barbara Picht (Berlin) und Meike Werner (Nashville).

Die Redaktion der Zeitschrift befand sich in den Jahren 1976 bis 2002 in München, in den Jahren 2003 bis 2009 in Wien sowie zwischen 2010 und 2022 in Bielefeld. Seit 2023 hat die Redaktion ihren Sitz an der Freien Universität Berlin unter dem Hauptherausgeber Kai Bremer.

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Topics

Volume 48 (2023)

Volume 47 (2022)

Volume 46 (2021)

Volume 45 (2020)

Volume 44 (2019)

Volume 43 (2018)

Volume 42 (2017)

Volume 41 (2016)

Volume 40 (2015)

Volume 39 (2014)

Volume 38 (2013)

Volume 37 (2012)

Volume 36 (2011)

Volume 35 (2010)

Volume 34 (2010)

Volume 33 (2009)

Volume 32 (2007)

Volume 31 (2006)

Volume 30 (2006)

Volume 29 (2004)

Volume 28 (2003)

Volume 27 (2002)

Volume 26 (2001)

Volume 25 (2000)

Volume 24 (1999)

Volume 23 (1998)

Volume 22 (1997)

Volume 21 (1996)

Volume 20 (1995)

Volume 19 (1994)

Volume 18 (1993)

Volume 17 (1992)

Volume 16 (1991)

Volume 15 (1990)

Volume 14 (1989)

Journal Impact Factor	0.2	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.1	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	1.28	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	0.3	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.123	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.313	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Editorial

Hauptherausgeber
Prof. Dr. Kai Bremer, Freie Universität Berlin

Mitherausgeber
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Benz, Universität Bielefeld, Prof. Dr, Walter Erhart, Universität Bielefeld, PD Dr. Barbara Picht, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University Nashville

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat
Norbert, Bachleitner (Wien), Christian Begemann (München), Barbara Beßlich (Heidelberg), Birte Förster (Bielefeld), Gangolf Hübinger (Frankfurt/O.), Peter Jelavich (Baltimore), Peter Strohschneider (München), Silvia Serena Tschopp (Augsburg)

Redaktion
Dr. Helene Kraus
iasl@germanistik.fu-berlin.de

Volume 48 Issue 2

November 2023

Frontmatter

Publicly Available November 23, 2023

Frontmatter

Page range: I-IV

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Publicly Available November 23, 2023

Erneut in eigener Sache

Kai Bremer

Page range: 219-220

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Forschungsdiskussion

November 23, 2023

Geistesarbeit als Moderationskunst

Julika Griem

Page range: 221-230

November 23, 2023

Reading for the Gesture

Paul Fleming

Page range: 231-240

November 23, 2023

Warum Schreiben nicht gleich Prosa ist

Hannah von Sass

Page range: 241-270

Abstract

Analytical descriptions of literature are often based on the general presupposition according to which literature is mostly constituted as prose, giving privilege to the book as its form. This very premise is also definitive for Caroline Amlinger’s seminal study titled Schreiben. Eine Soziologie literarischer Arbeit (2021). This article aims at examining how this restriction can amount to crucially marginalising and reducing literature’s diversity. Amlinger’s praxeological account leads to emphasizing the processual character of text production; it is also able to elaborate on how the dynamics of the economic business have an impact on the literary result. However, the practices and forms of, particularly, German speaking contemporary theatre literature as well as the radio play indicate that a less restrictive definition of literature is required in order to consider the diverse conditions of literature’s appearance in different genres in a fertile manner.

Schwerpunkt: Literaturwissenschaft und Geschlechterforschung

November 23, 2023

Literaturwissenschaft und Geschlechterforschung – Einleitung

Marijke Box, Mareike Gronich, Lisa Jüttner, Benedikt Wolf

Page range: 271-275

November 23, 2023

Schreibende Frauen zwischen Ausschluss, Teilhabe und Sichtbarkeit

Entwicklung und Perspektiven der Literaturgeschichte weiblicher Autorschaft

Anne Fleig

Page range: 276-290

Abstract

This article deals with the feminist history of research on female authorship and its entanglements with the development of Gender Studies. It argues that new impulses of research in literary Gender Studies have been affected by literature itself which may also help today to develop new perspectives on female and diverse concepts of authorship and writing.

November 23, 2023

Durchkreuzte Länder, verschobenes Begehren

Herzog Ernst als Brautwerbungserzählung

Andreas Kraß

Page range: 291-308

Abstract

This article is intended to illustrate how helpful it is to incorporate the theoretical and methodological approaches of Queer Studies and Intersectionality Studies into (medievalist) literary studies. As the analysis of the medieval narrative Herzog Ernst will show, gender relations become visible in this way that tend to remain hidden to a heteronormative perspective. It has for a long time been controversial whether Herzog Ernst can be interpreted as a bridal-quest epic. This article argues that this is not only possible, but even essential – albeit in unforeseen ways.

November 23, 2023

Gender-queere Perspektiven auf Raum-Zeit-Konstellationen in der Literatur: Virginia Woolfs Orlando

Eveline Kilian

Page range: 309-331

Abstract

This paper takes its cue from research on the social production of space and time in recent decades and outlines major feminist and queer perspectives emanating from this field of investigation and their productivity for cultural and literary studies (Part 1). Part 2 offers a gender-queer reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928) based on the concepts and ideas presented in the first section. It shows how Woolf’s experimental take on time, space and gender exposes the patriarchal and heteronormative underpinnings of Victorian biographical writing and projects a performative notion of gender that refutes the gender essentialism still prevalent in her day. The concluding part (Part 3) considers the literary text itself as a heterotopia in the sense of a counter-site that can critically reflect the norms of existing spaces and open up alternative worlds of being for the reader to inhabit.

November 23, 2023

Stimme, Name, Geschlecht.

Narratologische Aspekte eines queer reading von Christoph Martin Wielands Novelle ohne Titel (1803/05)

Andreas Blödorn

Page range: 332-355

Abstract

This article aims to further discussions about a queer reading. An exemplary reading of Christoph Martin Wieland’s Novella without a Title (1803/1805) is particularly interested in the inconsistencies within in this text’s exploration of the multidimensional concept of “Geschlecht” (sex/gender, kinship, and the human species). A narratological queer reading in this sense lays thus open the openings and closures of the text.

November 23, 2023

Das Ich in der Geschlechterforschung

Zur Bedeutung von Erfahrung und Erleben für die Kritik der Geschlechterordnung – Soziologische und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

Tomke König, Walter Erhart

Page range: 356-378

Abstract

This article calls for a turn in gender studies by giving attention to the corporeal and felt experience of being gendered. The first part recaptures experience as a decisive force in the history of feminism, queer and trans studies. In the second – and larger – part we focus on theoretical and empirical evidence how the experience of gender as a way of being oneself and feeling at home (or not feeling at home) in one’s own body may transgress the normative boundaries of gender and, in the long run, transform the gendered order of a given society. Based on sociological and literary studies, the article provides examples and theoretical models to overcome the well-known divide between a (de-)constructive view on gender performativity and the insistence on the given and inescapable materiality, existence and experience of gendered human beings.

Schwerpunkt: Postmigrantische Perspektiven in der Peripherie

November 23, 2023

Einleitung: Postmigrantische Perspektiven in der Peripherie

Michael Neumann, Marcus Twellmann

Page range: 379-397

November 23, 2023

Literarisches Schreiben post Hanau

Maha El Hissy

Page range: 398-416

Abstract

The following contribution begins with an overview of a history and critique of the contemporary usage of the term postmigrant art and literature. I then examine the writing by authors of colour in Germany after the racist killings in the city of Hanau in 2020. Taking Shida Bazyar’s novel Sisters in Arms ( Drei Kameradinnen ) as a point of departure, I investigate what I refer to as the art and politics of confusion and ambivalence. As I discuss within the context of the novel, the narrative strategies and aesthetics reflect racist practices of victim blaming, evidence tampering and the scandalous failure of state institutions to restore justice or fight the rising threat from the far-right.

November 23, 2023

Problemzone Ostdeutschland

Die Post-DDR-Provinz als Aushandlungsraum des Postmigrantischen in Literatur und Comic

Willi Wolfgang Barthold

Page range: 417-439

Abstract

By analyzing Lukas Rietzschel’s novel Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (2018) and Nino (f.k.a. Paula) Bulling’s Comic Im Land der Frühaufsteher (2012), this article explores contemporary portrayals of “East German rural space” against the backdrop of current discourses on Germany’s postmigrant condition. Marginalized on a political, economic and symbolic level and construed as the “Other” of German majority society in mainstream media, the “rural East” has recently been discovered by artists as a medium to reflect on urbanormative and (post-)colonial structures of representation that shape the debate and discursive construction process of postmigrant realities. In order to further illuminate this unique position and potential of East German rural space in art and postmigrant discourse, this paper will explore issues of migration, belonging, and (East German) identity in the abovementioned works through the lens of postcolonial theory.

November 23, 2023

Nach der Coolness

Zur Erosion popliterarischer Strategien und Ästhetiken in Moritz von Uslars Deutschboden-Texten

Lena Marie Brinkmann

Page range: 440-465

Abstract

From the protective strategy of a minority to a popular consumer argument, coolness has come a long way. Once celebrated as a mark of distinction in pop literature, the question today is whether coolness is not long outdated when it comes to writing about issues and views of postmigrant realities that keep the political public in suspense. This article explores aspects and varieties of coolness in Deutschboden (2010) and Nochmal Deutschboden (2020) by Moritz von Uslar and addresses the question of whether the cool attitude can still serve as a cultural practice and aesthetics of self-assertion.

November 23, 2023

Die ‚Normalität‘ der Provinz

Zur Ausblendung von Migration in Juli Zehs Roman Über Menschen

Marie Gunreben

Page range: 466-480

Abstract

By staging the province as a place of normality and authenticity that stands in contrast to an alienated metropolitan environment, Juli Zeh’s Über Menschen (2021) perpetuates traditional narratives of the critique of modernity. In the encounter between the protagonist, a newly arrived village resident, and the local “Dorf-Nazi” Zeh develops a programmatic ‘ethics of nonetheless’ that emphasizes the possibility of interpersonal understanding beyond ideological and political differences. However, this ‘ethics of nonetheless’ is, as I want to argue in this article, based on the ignorance of migrant voices and experiences.

November 23, 2023

Ewig Peripherie?

Raumdarstellung, Postmigrationserfahrungen und Gesellschaftsdiagnose in Deniz Ohdes Streulicht

Philipp Böttcher

Page range: 481-506

Abstract

Based on sociological approaches to the relationship between inequality and space, the article analyses the connections between spatial, class and post-migration perspectives in Deniz Ohdeʼs Streulicht . In particular, the urban periphery that features as the location of the novel is both a literary and socially representative space. In the text social and individual-mental aspects are negotiated through the representation of space. This also includes the xenophobic attributions that the narrator experiences from her environment.

November 23, 2023

Identität und Perspektive

Marcus Twellmann

Page range: 507-530

Abstract

Current discourses of postmigrant societies heavily draw on the notion of perspective, a leading metaphor of modern pluralist thought that is prominent in narratological discourse as well. Taking up Hans Blumenberg’s question of the possibility of the novel, the following contribution asks if and how the narrative art of perspectivism might be able to meet the challenge posed by recent changes in society.

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Online ISSN: 1865-9128
Print ISSN: 0340-4528
Type: Journal
Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1976
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Audience: Germanisten, Literaturwissenschaftler, Kulturwissenschaftler, Institute, Bibliotheken