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Exploring the complexities of Prussia, Ottmar Ette presents a nuanced portrait that transcends conventional notions of the nation-state and military power. The narrative highlights diverse figures, including Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick the Great, and Rahel Varnhagen, revealing their interconnectedness and contributions to a broader cultural dialogue. Ette uncovers overlooked traditions and relationships, illustrating Prussia as a dynamic entity shaped by various influences, including philosophical debates and artistic movements, ultimately portraying it as a mobile and multifaceted society.

This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about survival, and about living together, without either falling into discursive or disciplinary specializations or functioning as a regulatory mechanism for cultural knowledge.

Ottmar Ette’s TransArea proceeds from the thesis that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but rather, a process of long duration that may be divided into four main phases of accelerated globalization. These phases connect our present, across the world’s widely divergent modern eras, to the period of early modern history. Ette demonstrates how the literatures of the world make possible a tangible perception of that which constitutes Life, both of our planet and on our planet, which may only be understood through the application of multiple logics. There is no substitute for the knowledge of literature: it is the knowledge of life, from life. This English translation will be of great interest to English-speaking scholars in the fields of Global and Area Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Political Science, and many more. About the author Ottmar Ette has been Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, since 1995. He is Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (elected in 2014), member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected in 2013), and regular member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010).

Der Begriff des Hybriden hat in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten im Rahmen unterschiedlichster Text- und Kulturtheorien eine beeindruckende Konjunktur erlebt. Besonders wirkmächtig ist der Hybriditätsbegriff im Kontext der Postcolonial Studies geworden. Die Idee dieses Bandes besteht darin, erstens die Probleme des Hybriditätsbegriffs detailscharf zu beschreiben; zweitens die Politiken der semantischen Zuschreibung und Umschreibung des Hybriditätsbegriffs nachzuvollziehen; drittens über alternative Beschreibungsmodelle nachzudenken, die entweder eine differenziertere Verwendung des Hybriditätsbegriffs – oder seine Überwindung – erlauben; viertens Konzepte für künftige kulturtheoretische Modellierungen zu entwickeln, die im Sinne vektorisierter Zwischenräume die Rhizomatiken lebendiger Interkonnektoren im Kontext divergierender Modernen weltweit als Lebenspolitiken reformulieren; fünftens aktuelle Diskussionslinien weltweit transarchipelisch zusammenzuführen.

A lo largo de las últimas décadas, la región del Gran Caribe ha ido cobrando de forma continuada un gran auge como uno de los lugares privilegiados para la producción de teorías como la négritude, la créolité o la relationalité; y es en ese orden cronológico que se intenta centrar la mirada, concretamente, en la convivencia en las islas de ese archipiélago y de su diáspora, o de desarrollar a partir de ahí categorías universales como las que han propuesto varios intelectuales. Si como substrato de este tomo podemos sacar la conclusión de que las islas del Caribe como otras regiones insulares han de ser entendidas como espacios sumamente complejos en los que se condensan (si bien no se simplifican) ciertos procesos, ello quiere decir entonces, con vistas a la crisis en la que se encuentra sumida nuestra convivencia global en la actualidad, que vale la pena echar una ojeada a cómo la literatura procesa y reproduce esa convivencia. El Caribe, en su relacionalidad transarchipiélica, se ha convertido en un paradigma que se proyecta tanto hacia el pasado como hacia el futuro.

Literature on the Move formulates a new aesthetics for the altered conditions and challenges of the new century. The point of departure for examining a bordercrossing literature on the move is travel literature, from which the view opens up unto other spaces, dimensions and patterns of movement which will shape the literatures of the 21th Century. And these will become - one needs no prophetic gift to see - for a major part literatures with no fixed abode. Signposts of this journey through literature proposed by this book are texts by, among many others, Balzac, Barthes, Baudrillard, Borges, Calvino, Condé, Cohen, Diderot, Goethe, A.v. Humboldt, Kristeva, Reyes, Rodó or Stadler. This book will specially appeal to an audience interested by comparative literature, literary theory, and travel literature and will be of interest to anybody who delights in «literary journeys».