Books by Catrin Gersdorf
The Poetics and Politics of the Desert Landscape and the Construction of America ... The Poetics ... more The Poetics and Politics of the Desert Landscape and the Construction of America ... The Poetics and Politics of the Desert ... Spatial Practices An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature 6 General Editors: Robert Burden (University of Teesside) Stephan Kohl ( ...
Papers by Catrin Gersdorf
New American Studies Journal
In search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on th... more In search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on the failure of contemporary literary fiction to find forms that adequately express the multiple challenges of the Anthropocene, I came across a review of Allegra Hyde’s debut novel in the Los Angeles Times. The novel’s title, Eleutheria, was suggestive enough to pique my interest: etymologically, it evokes the concepts of liberty and freedom; geographically, it calls to mind the small island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas that was colonized in the late 1640s by a group of English Puritans known as the Eleutheran Adventurers. Add to this that Willa Marks, the novel’s narrator-protagonist, is a twenty-two-year-old member of Generation Z, the same generation as the students we teach these days, and Eleutheria (2022) becomes a worthy candidate for an American Studies syllabus. What kind of narrative tapestry was the author able to weave out of the materials of history, climate change, and a young...
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, 2000
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
This article introduces the conceptual framework of the special section on urban ecologies... more This article introduces the conceptual framework of the special section on urban ecologies, as well as the different contributions. Resumen Este artículo introduce el marco conceptual y a los colaboradores de esta sección especial sobre ecologías urbanas.
Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson. Ed. Peter Nicolaisen and Hannah Spahn. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013.
Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 124.1 (2006)., 2006
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1998
The Journal of American Culture, 1996
In the spring of 1992, a Leipzig local newspaper published an article with the headline Victors ... more In the spring of 1992, a Leipzig local newspaper published an article with the headline Victors of History(LuK 9). The phrase sounded familiar. As part of the vocabulary of political language in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), it was an important discursive ...
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Book Reviews by Catrin Gersdorf
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