Revolutionary Subjects ― German Literatures and the Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity With Latin America

The author presents case studies to illustrate how transnational referents mediate first and second world political and cultural conflicts represented in German plays and novels about Latin America. Armed with the concept of aesthetic solidarity as a lens to view how political and literary actors embark on new paths across struggles and places, Trnka demonstrates how East and West German authors mobilized Latin American figures of revolutionary violence to literary-political ends. Six chapters are: geoculture, solidarity, and textual politics in East and West German writings about Latin America; the translator’s ghosts; alternative internationalisms and literary historical inversions; the task of decolonial thinking; a rhetoric of walking around; the limits of aesthetic solidarity. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jamie H. Trnka, The University of Scranton, Scranton, USA.