selbst-bewusste-erzaehlungen

American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce the release of the essay collection Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.

During this winter, the research initiative on “Selbst-Bewusste Erzählungen” completed final touches on a larger project that started with a conference jointly organized by American Studies scholars in Leipzig and Dresden in June 2013: Titled Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

This year's American Studies Association convention on “The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain In the Post-American Century” featured a panel initiated by the Dresden-Leipzig Research Initiative Selbst-Bewusste Erzählu

The Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

Leipzig University
June 20-22, 2013

American Studies Leipzig and the Chair of North American Literature at TU Dresden are proud to announce a new joint research initiative on “Selbst-Bewusste Erzählungen: Textlichkeit und gesellschaftliche Relevanz in US-amerikanischer Gegenwartskultur.”