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The series ALE is focused on researching all African literatures written in the English language, encompassing the breadth and multiplicity of their thematic, formal and socio-historical aspects. The title equally implies that the object of study is conceived as a consequence of British colonialism, thus making it into a cultural hybrid that is inscribed in the wider context of Colonial Studies including their postcolonial critique and revision. Accordingly the texts to be studied are not only understood as forming part of the symbolic system of literature and its aesthetic procedures, but in an equal measure as part of the social system where they belong with the process of societies making meaning of themselves.
Darüber hinaus sollen in den Studien und Beiträgen der Reihe „Ethik – Text – Kultur“ die medialen und kulturellen Bedingungen ethischer Reflexion fokussiert werden. Zur Debatte stehen die implizite und explizite Ethik der Texte, ihrer Darstellungsweisen und ihrer Pragmatik, der Kultur und ihrer (medialen) Konstruktionen.
Die Reihe ist mit Band 7 abgeschlossen.
The series of "Huizinga Schriften", which Brill | Fink has been presenting in new and first translations since 2011, comes to a close with the seventh volume, which contains "Homo Ludens", the reference text of all modern game theories. Thanks to Annette Wunschel, who was awarded the Else Otten Prize in 2016 for her translation of Huizinga's "Kultur- und zeitkritischen Schriften" not only are Huizinga's main works "Herbst des Mittelalters," "Erasmus," and "Homo Ludens" now available in a completely new translation, which, through its intended closeness to the original text, is able to preserve its liveliness and richness of punchlines down to the smallest nuances. With the letters, the "America" books, and the biography of the artist Jan Veth translated for the first time, a comprehensive view of the work of the great Dutch cultural historian opens up.
The series is completed with volume 7.
Literatur, Film, Fernsehen, Fotografie und Kunst bilden für Repräsentationen von Arbeit und Arbeitskulturen besondere Archive. Sie machen erkennbar, wie sich zeithistorische Deutungen, Wertungen und Politiken von Arbeit ausprägen, sie verweisen auf deren Brüche und Widersprüche und sie experimentieren im ästhetisch-fiktionalen Raum mit Alternativkonzepten. Dem breiten Spektrum des damit skizzierten Erkenntnisinteresses begegnet die Schriftenreihe mit der methodischen Pluralität literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Vorgehens. Ein solches zieht gerade aus der Perspektivenvielfalt seinen Erkenntnisgewinn. Die Reihe bündelt und rahmt diese Perspektiven und trägt dadurch zur Sichtbarkeit kulturwissenschaftlicher Arbeitsforschung bei.
The multifaceted examination of the theme of 'work' and its social-gravitational forces is a continually transforming academic project. The book series vita activa responds to this proposition and aims to bring interdisciplinary perspectives into contact with each other and interconnect them. Complementary to sociological approaches to the theme of work, the series highlights a uniquely cultural-specific view of work in contemporary debates – it focuses specifically on the historicity of ideas about work as well as their culturally specific and medial manifestations. The areas of literature, film, television, photography, and art generate exceptional archives for the representation of work and work cultures. They reveal how contemporary historical interpretations, values, and the politics of work are shaped, they point to their ruptures and contradictions, and they experiment with alternative concepts in aesthetic-fictional spaces. The series accounts for the broad spectrum of epistemological interests outlined above by including a methodological plurality of literary and cultural studies approaches and draws key insights from its multiplicity of perspectives; it collects and frames them, and it thereby contributes to the visibility of cultural studies research.