Sarmatien – Germania Slavica – Mitteleuropa. Sarmatia – Germania Slavica – Central Europe

Vom Grenzland im Osten über Johannes Bobrowskis Utopie zur Ästhetik des Grenzraums. From the Borderland in the East and Johannes Bobrowski’s Utopia to a Border Aesthetics

Contributions by Joanna Jabłkowska Contributions by Withold Bonner Contributions by Svetlana Efimova Contributions by Florian Gassner Contributions by Brian Haman Contributions by Olga Hinojosa Picón Contributions by Andrea Meixner Contributions by Kristin Rebien Contributions by Hannelore Roth Contributions by Joseph Twist Contributions by Andreas Degen Contributions by Benoît Ellerbach Contributions by Julia Karin Patrut Contributions by Florian Krobb Contributions by Garbiñe Iztueta Contributions by Innokentij Urupin Contributions by Anne Sturm Contributions by Tom Vanassche Contributions by Edit Kovács Contributions by Jacqueline Gutjahr Edited by Sabine Egger Edited by Stefan Hajduk Edited by Britta C. Jung

Book cover: Sarmatien – Germania Slavica – Mitteleuropa. Sarmatia – Germania Slavica – Central Europe

Extent: 471 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(November 2020)

ISBN: 9783847111931

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $99.00

In stock

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entwarf Johannes Bobrowski mit seinem ‘Sarmatien’ einen literarischen Raum, der einen uberraschend zeitgemassen Orientierungspunkt fur die Diskussion ‘ostlicher’ europaischer Grenzraume im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert bietet. In der aktuellen Forschung ist eine Infragestellung von Grenzen durch Begriffe wie Liminalitat (Turner), dritter Raum (Bhabha) oder Ahnlichkeit (Bhatti) zu beobachten. Der Vergleich von Werken Musils, Celans, Sebalds oder Trojanows mit Beispielen aus der russischen, kasachischen, polnischen oder tschechischen Literatur (u.a. Babel, Tokarzcuk, Belger) eroffnet komparatistische und interdisziplinare Perspektiven auf ein uber Europa hinausreichendes Panorama literarischer Grenzraume.


In the aftermath of WWII, Johannes Bobrowski’s Sarmatia created a poetic borderland space that challenged existing borders in Central and Eastern Europe – and has continued to do so in the 20th and 21st century. Recent scholarship has increasingly begun to question borders by introducing terms such as liminality (Turner), third space (Bhabha), or similarity (Bhatti). Individual chapters in this volume discuss how borderland spaces are staged, intermedially reflected, or deconstructed in German-language literature, and what impact this might have within a particular field or discourse. By comparing works of Musil, Celan, Sebald or Trojanow with Russian, Kazakh, Polish or Czech literature (e.g. Babel, Tokarczuk, Belger), comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives are opened on a vibrant panorama of literary spaces reaching beyond the borders of Europe.

  • Contributions by Joanna Jabłkowska
  • Contributions by Withold Bonner
  • Contributions by Svetlana Efimova
  • Contributions by Florian Gassner
  • Contributions by Brian Haman
  • Contributions by Olga Hinojosa Picón
  • Contributions by Andrea Meixner
  • Contributions by Kristin Rebien
  • Contributions by Hannelore Roth
  • Contributions by Joseph Twist
  • Contributions by Andreas Degen
  • Contributions by Benoît Ellerbach
  • Contributions by Julia Karin Patrut
  • Contributions by Florian Krobb
  • Contributions by Garbiñe Iztueta
  • Contributions by Innokentij Urupin
  • Contributions by Anne Sturm
  • Contributions by Tom Vanassche
  • Contributions by Edit Kovács
  • Contributions by Jacqueline Gutjahr
  • Edited by Sabine Egger
  • Edited by Stefan Hajduk
  • Edited by Britta C. Jung

»Als wertvollste Leistung des Bandes kann die tiefere Einbindung Bobrowskis und auch des Mitteleuropadiskurses in aktuelle transnationale und interkulturelle Debatten in der Germanistik betrachtet werden.«

– aus: Germanistik in Ireland, 16 (2021), S. 247–249 (Dr. Yvonne Zivkovic, Universität Graz)

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