Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Gender as a Category of Knowledge

Dr. Carsten Junker

PhD Project:

Framing Friction – Essays in Dialogue, 1920-1970

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Description of the Project

The study maps out a panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to examine the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking into account the latest ideas from gender studies and African-American studies, as well as current essay theory, the study juxtaposes the ways in which African American authors and speakers from the 1920s to the 1970s debated critical topics with their white and Jewish contemporaries in order to emphasize the dialogic nature of the essay form. Ultimately, the study hones in on the genre of the essay itself, arguing that it is repeatedly questioned and reconstituted during times of social change.

                                      

Particulars

 

Carsten Junker, studied English/American studies and German studies in Berlin and London, from 2005-2007 doctoral fellowship at the Research Training Group, from 1/2006–6/2006 research at the Department of English at Cornell University. PhD in North American literature and culture (2009). Since 2008 postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American studies at the University of Bremen.
   
Selected Publications

 

Narrating Family Lives. Religion and Enslavement in Samuel West’s Memoirs (1807). In: American Lives, hg. v. Alfred Hornung, Heidelberg 2013. S. 157–171.

Essay. In: Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk, hg. v. Susan Arndt u. Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, Münster 2011. S. 278 – 288.

Frames of Friction. Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention, Frankfurt a. M./New York 2010.

zus. m. Julia Roth: Weiß sehen. Dekoloniale Blickwechsel mit Zora Neale Hurston und Toni Morrison, Sulzbach/Taunus 2010.

   

Contact

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