Books by Luisa Banki
Post-Katastrophische Poetik. Zu W. G. Sebald und Walter Benjamin, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2016
Trotz der oftmals attestierten Nähe des Schreibens W. G. Sebalds zum Denken Walter Benjamins zeig... more Trotz der oftmals attestierten Nähe des Schreibens W. G. Sebalds zum Denken Walter Benjamins zeigt Luisa Banki, dass sich diese Wahlverwandtschaft weder im Archiv noch durch intertextuelle Nachweise wirklich belegen lässt. Erst eine philologisch und philosophisch tiefgreifende Rekonstruktion erlaubt die Darstellung der Beziehung der beiden Autoren. Auf dem Weg dorthin entsteht eine »post-katastrophische Poetik«.
Diese erlaubt, sowohl die Singularität der Shoah als auch ihre Geschichtlichkeit in der Katastrophe, »dass es so weiter geht«, zu fokussieren. Betrachtet vor dem Horizont der benjaminschen Diagnose, das Erzählen sei im Zeitalter der Information unmöglich geworden, erscheint dabei im sebaldschen Text eine andere Triebfeder des Erzählens: Nicht die Melancholie, wie die herrschende Interpretation meint, sondern die Paranoia führt seinem Erzähler die Feder. So wird Sebald zum unverzichtbaren Gesprächspartner auch unserer zeitgenössischen Gegenwart.
Papers by Luisa Banki
Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, 2021
Duplikat, Abschrift & Kopie, 2020
Lektüre und Geschlecht im 18. Jahrhundert. Zur Situativität des Lesens zwischen Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit, hg. von Luisa Banki und Kathrin Wittler, 2020
Jalta. Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart. Zwischen Literarizität und Programmatik. Sonderausgabe Nr. 01: Jüdische Literaturen der Gegenwart, hg. von Micha Brumlik / Marina Chernivsky / Max Czollek / Hannah Peaceman Anna Schapiro / Lea Wohl von Haselberg, 2019
Bar jeder Regelpoetik Eva Lezzi Wenn du das schaffst, dann ist es scheißegal, was für ein Label s... more Bar jeder Regelpoetik Eva Lezzi Wenn du das schaffst, dann ist es scheißegal, was für ein Label sie dir draufknallen
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 93:1, 2019
In her correspondence with Jean Paul, Esther Gad develops a theory of reading that anticipates as... more In her correspondence with Jean Paul, Esther Gad develops a theory of reading that anticipates aspects of modern reader-response theory and is formulated in explicitly gendered terms. Drawing on her letters as well as other works by Gad, who has been wrongly neglected by literary scholarship, this article explicates her theory of female reading.
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 44:1, 2019
Around 1800, literary and gender discourses intersected in novel conceptualisations of friendship... more Around 1800, literary and gender discourses intersected in novel conceptualisations of friendship. Departing from a discussion of the possibility of female friendship, this paper offers a reading of Sophie von La Roche’s epistolary friendship with Julie Bondeli as it is presented in her late work Mein Schreibetisch (1799). This literary friendship, I argue, is offered as a model of female friendship that invites emulation. It thereby becomes an implicit – and only retrospectively reconstructable – beginning of a tradition of female literary friendship and authorship.
German Jewish Literature after 1990, ed. by Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller, 2018
M IRNA FUNK'S DEBUT NOVEL Winternähe was published in the summer of 2015 and is mostly set during... more M IRNA FUNK'S DEBUT NOVEL Winternähe was published in the summer of 2015 and is mostly set during the summer of 2014-a temporal proximity of plot, composition, and publication that is rare for a novel or perhaps indeed any literary work published in book form. 1 Contemporaneity, actuality, and currency are among this novel's main concerns, as are, conversely, the role of the past and past events for the present. Winternähe explores the ways in which historicity and an awareness of the presentness of the past, of its residues both in cityscapes and objects as well as in collective and individual histories, shapes an understanding of our very sense of now and thus of our present selves. Upon its publication the novel received widespread attention in the feuilletons of German newspapers and online magazines, won an award for work by emerging writers, and was shortlisted for another. 2 It is, claimed one enthused reviewer, "der radikalste von vergleichbaren Romanen deutschsprachiger Autoren und Autorinnen der 'Dritten Generation', die sich mit jüdischer Identität auseinandersetzen" (the most radical of comparable novels by German-speaking authors of the "Third Generation" writing about Jewish identity). 3 Funk does indeed explore questions of Jewish identity from the viewpoint of the third generation after the Shoah and thus contributes to a literary and artistic field that has only been opened up relatively recently. Central concerns of third-generation writers, such as the transgenerational transmission of trauma, notions of postmemory, and recurrent questions of assimilation and alienation all play a role in Funk's novel. 4 Even more importantly, however, they are rendered more complexand in this sense are also radicalized-by unusual and complicated constructs of family and identity. For example, Funk's protagonist Lola is a member of both the third generation (because she is the granddaughter of survivors) and the second generation (since she was brought up by her grandparents, who thus shaped her relationship to the world and to history). Lola's position in the succession of generations is determined, on the one hand, by the fact that it was her grandparents and not her parents who lived through the Shoah and, on the other hand, by her experiences as a child whose primary caregivers were survivors. Just as she stands in between clear
Videographierte Zeugenschaft, 2016
Robert Walsers Ambivalenzen
Biographisches Erzählen von der Moderne bis zur Gegenwart
„Philologie des Zeugnisses. Entscheidung und Erkenntnis in einer Celan-Lektüre Peter Szondis“, in: Zeugen in der Kunst, hg. v. Sybille Krämer u. Sibylle Schmidt, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2016
European Journal of Jewish Studies, 2010
This article provides an analysis of the modernist qualities inherent in Dovid Bergelson’s first ... more This article provides an analysis of the modernist qualities inherent in Dovid Bergelson’s first novel, Nokh alemen, which is read as an account of the difficult transition from tradition to modernity. This transition is described as painful, promising and impossible. The objective will be the investigation of this inability to enter into modernity, an inability that shall be viewed as a manifestation of a deeper structural inhibition that can be understood and analysed by reference to melancholia. Enlisting psychoanalytic as well as literary theoretical concepts, melancholia shall be read less as a phase that the protagonist is somehow going through and more as a fundamental psychic condition, permeating the novel as a whole. Taking into account the pervasive phenomenon of the struggle of tradition and modernity, Bergelson’s creative production, voicing and commenting on a “historic melancholia,” is not only about melancholia in its mimetic representations but also in its intellect...
Edited Volumes by Luisa Banki
Lektüre und Geschlecht im 18. Jahrhundert. Zur Situativität des Lesens zwischen Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit. Hg. von Luisa Banki und Kathrin Wittler. Göttingen: Wallstein 2020 (=Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert – Supplementa, Bd. 29), 2020
Die Ausbreitung des Lesens bis hin zur »Lesesucht« im 18. Jahrhundert ist sowohl zeitgenössisch a... more Die Ausbreitung des Lesens bis hin zur »Lesesucht« im 18. Jahrhundert ist sowohl zeitgenössisch als auch rückblickend in geschlechtsspezifischen Begriffen verhandelt worden. Gängig wurde eine bis heute wirksame, dichotomisierend vereinfachende Gegenüberstellung von ›männlicher‹ Vernunft und ›weiblichem‹ Gefühl, die die Bewertung der Gegenstände, der Akteure und Akteurinnen sowie der Praktiken des Lesens bestimmte. Der aktuellen Hinwendung der Aufklärungsforschung zu praxeologischen Fragestellungen folgend, richten die Autorinnen und Autoren den Blick auf situative Zusammenhänge, in denen die geschlechtliche Codierung von Lektüren verkompliziert wird.
Indem sie ein weites Spektrum von Lesesituationen und Lektürepraktiken im Spannungsfeld zwischen Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit auffächern und so die facettenreiche Situativität des Lesens im Aufklärungsjahrhundert veranschaulichen, hinterfragen die Beiträge des Bandes die tradierte Dichotomie von Gelehrsamkeit und Empfindsamkeit und revidieren überkommene Annahmen der historischen Leseforschung im Lichte aktueller Theoriebildung und unter Berücksichtigung neu erschlossener Quellen.
Jalta. Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart, Sonderausgabe 01, 2019
Das Heft erkundet, auf welche Weise sich jüdische Autor*innen in die Gegenwart einschreiben, an w... more Das Heft erkundet, auf welche Weise sich jüdische Autor*innen in die Gegenwart einschreiben, an welche Vorbilder und Prätexte sie anknüpfen und wie sie sich zu den Traditionen jüdischer Literaturen ins Verhältnis setzen.
Wodurch zeichnen sich jüdische Literaturen der Gegenwart aus? Auf welche Weise verbindet das Adjektiv jüdisch etwa literarische und programmatische Aspekte? Was also ist das spezifisch ‚Jüdische‘ an ‚jüdischer Literatur‘?
Orbis Litterarum 74:1, Special Issue: Materiality and Affect of Reading, 2019
Lektüren. Positionen zeitgenössischer Philologie, Trier: WVT, 2017
Der vorliegende Band will einen grundlegenden Beitrag zur aktuellen Methodendiskussion in der Lit... more Der vorliegende Band will einen grundlegenden Beitrag zur aktuellen Methodendiskussion in der Literaturwissenschaft leisten. Er setzt jenseits der überholten Alternative von "Re-Philologisierung oder kulturwissenschaftlicher Erweiterung" an und rückt die Lektüre als das Proprium der Literaturwissenschaft in den Blick. Die versammelten Beiträge stellen zum einen grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Methodik und den Erkenntnismöglichkeiten philologischer Lektüre an und erproben zum anderen die theoretischen Befunde in der Konfrontation mit literarischen Texten. Erste Einsicht und grundlegende These des Sammelbandes ist, dass die Philologie, die "Liebe zum Wort", Theorie und Praxis nicht scheiden kann. Philologie wird damit zum auch theoretisch belastbaren Begriff für die Praxis der Lektüre.
Under Contract by Luisa Banki
Monatshefte, 2024
Discussions about literature after the Second World War and the Shoah tend to organize authors in... more Discussions about literature after the Second World War and the Shoah tend to organize authors in generations: the first, which experienced the horrors of persecution and extermination themselves, and the second, which includes the children of survivors. In our focus on the third generation, we not only extend this classification to catch up with contemporary literature but we also include the descendants of perpetrators and bystanders writing about the Holocaust. The literary works of these authors share, so we argue, specific characteristics, ranging from a frequently autobiographical or autofictional engagement with family history to an overwhelming presence of female-identifying writers and protagonists. Analyzing the way these women writers of the third generation engage with the memory of and memorial practices surrounding the Holocaust is at the center of this proposed special issue, and its contributions point to a particular orientation toward futurity that is representative for this generation and its literary production. This special issue brings together ongoing scholarly conversations of the past few years from contexts such as the DFG-funded Research Network “3G: Positionen der dritten Generation nach Zweitem Weltkrieg und Shoah in Literatur und Künsten der Gegenwart,” and it goes beyond them to present English and German contributions from a range of international scholars central to the field.
While the articles in this special issue focus on different contemporary (graphic) novels by third-generation authors, they work out a shared set of concerns of their literary corpus together. The contributions show that these texts center on questions of generationality and gender by focusing on the familial relationships of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters as well as their sense of (non)belonging within contemporary German and Austrian society across time. Hovering between an autobiographical mode and outright autofiction, the aesthetic strategies of these novels showcase the importance of storytelling, the persistence of fragmentation and Leerstellen about the past, and the importance of including varying, often contradictory perspectives. These patterns elucidate how third-generation literature about memorial practices addresses and is eager to shape the future with new modes of remembrance.
The third generation is often described as the “bridge generation” (Esther Jilovsky) that takes part in the transformation of the communicative, direct remembrance to the indirect and mediated forms of cultural memory. Texts by third-generation authors differentiate themselves from second-generation engagement with trauma by making a strong positive and critical claim to their place within German and Austrian societies and identities. These identities go beyond a negotiation of the space for Jewishness in German-speaking countries to include questions about a range of intersectional self-identifications regarding race, religion, culture, language, gender, and sexual orientation. As the analyses in this special issue show, these contemporary interrogations of belonging by third-generation authors that draw on the Second World War and the Shoah as their joint transcultural history raise the question how remembrance will be shaped and transmitted in the future, and how the future might be shaped by that very remembrance. Their answers include a range of strategies for participating in this process, among them the confident assertion that it is the task of their generation to determine this discourse collectively.
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Books by Luisa Banki
Diese erlaubt, sowohl die Singularität der Shoah als auch ihre Geschichtlichkeit in der Katastrophe, »dass es so weiter geht«, zu fokussieren. Betrachtet vor dem Horizont der benjaminschen Diagnose, das Erzählen sei im Zeitalter der Information unmöglich geworden, erscheint dabei im sebaldschen Text eine andere Triebfeder des Erzählens: Nicht die Melancholie, wie die herrschende Interpretation meint, sondern die Paranoia führt seinem Erzähler die Feder. So wird Sebald zum unverzichtbaren Gesprächspartner auch unserer zeitgenössischen Gegenwart.
Papers by Luisa Banki
Edited Volumes by Luisa Banki
Indem sie ein weites Spektrum von Lesesituationen und Lektürepraktiken im Spannungsfeld zwischen Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit auffächern und so die facettenreiche Situativität des Lesens im Aufklärungsjahrhundert veranschaulichen, hinterfragen die Beiträge des Bandes die tradierte Dichotomie von Gelehrsamkeit und Empfindsamkeit und revidieren überkommene Annahmen der historischen Leseforschung im Lichte aktueller Theoriebildung und unter Berücksichtigung neu erschlossener Quellen.
Wodurch zeichnen sich jüdische Literaturen der Gegenwart aus? Auf welche Weise verbindet das Adjektiv jüdisch etwa literarische und programmatische Aspekte? Was also ist das spezifisch ‚Jüdische‘ an ‚jüdischer Literatur‘?
Under Contract by Luisa Banki
While the articles in this special issue focus on different contemporary (graphic) novels by third-generation authors, they work out a shared set of concerns of their literary corpus together. The contributions show that these texts center on questions of generationality and gender by focusing on the familial relationships of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters as well as their sense of (non)belonging within contemporary German and Austrian society across time. Hovering between an autobiographical mode and outright autofiction, the aesthetic strategies of these novels showcase the importance of storytelling, the persistence of fragmentation and Leerstellen about the past, and the importance of including varying, often contradictory perspectives. These patterns elucidate how third-generation literature about memorial practices addresses and is eager to shape the future with new modes of remembrance.
The third generation is often described as the “bridge generation” (Esther Jilovsky) that takes part in the transformation of the communicative, direct remembrance to the indirect and mediated forms of cultural memory. Texts by third-generation authors differentiate themselves from second-generation engagement with trauma by making a strong positive and critical claim to their place within German and Austrian societies and identities. These identities go beyond a negotiation of the space for Jewishness in German-speaking countries to include questions about a range of intersectional self-identifications regarding race, religion, culture, language, gender, and sexual orientation. As the analyses in this special issue show, these contemporary interrogations of belonging by third-generation authors that draw on the Second World War and the Shoah as their joint transcultural history raise the question how remembrance will be shaped and transmitted in the future, and how the future might be shaped by that very remembrance. Their answers include a range of strategies for participating in this process, among them the confident assertion that it is the task of their generation to determine this discourse collectively.
Diese erlaubt, sowohl die Singularität der Shoah als auch ihre Geschichtlichkeit in der Katastrophe, »dass es so weiter geht«, zu fokussieren. Betrachtet vor dem Horizont der benjaminschen Diagnose, das Erzählen sei im Zeitalter der Information unmöglich geworden, erscheint dabei im sebaldschen Text eine andere Triebfeder des Erzählens: Nicht die Melancholie, wie die herrschende Interpretation meint, sondern die Paranoia führt seinem Erzähler die Feder. So wird Sebald zum unverzichtbaren Gesprächspartner auch unserer zeitgenössischen Gegenwart.
Indem sie ein weites Spektrum von Lesesituationen und Lektürepraktiken im Spannungsfeld zwischen Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit auffächern und so die facettenreiche Situativität des Lesens im Aufklärungsjahrhundert veranschaulichen, hinterfragen die Beiträge des Bandes die tradierte Dichotomie von Gelehrsamkeit und Empfindsamkeit und revidieren überkommene Annahmen der historischen Leseforschung im Lichte aktueller Theoriebildung und unter Berücksichtigung neu erschlossener Quellen.
Wodurch zeichnen sich jüdische Literaturen der Gegenwart aus? Auf welche Weise verbindet das Adjektiv jüdisch etwa literarische und programmatische Aspekte? Was also ist das spezifisch ‚Jüdische‘ an ‚jüdischer Literatur‘?
While the articles in this special issue focus on different contemporary (graphic) novels by third-generation authors, they work out a shared set of concerns of their literary corpus together. The contributions show that these texts center on questions of generationality and gender by focusing on the familial relationships of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters as well as their sense of (non)belonging within contemporary German and Austrian society across time. Hovering between an autobiographical mode and outright autofiction, the aesthetic strategies of these novels showcase the importance of storytelling, the persistence of fragmentation and Leerstellen about the past, and the importance of including varying, often contradictory perspectives. These patterns elucidate how third-generation literature about memorial practices addresses and is eager to shape the future with new modes of remembrance.
The third generation is often described as the “bridge generation” (Esther Jilovsky) that takes part in the transformation of the communicative, direct remembrance to the indirect and mediated forms of cultural memory. Texts by third-generation authors differentiate themselves from second-generation engagement with trauma by making a strong positive and critical claim to their place within German and Austrian societies and identities. These identities go beyond a negotiation of the space for Jewishness in German-speaking countries to include questions about a range of intersectional self-identifications regarding race, religion, culture, language, gender, and sexual orientation. As the analyses in this special issue show, these contemporary interrogations of belonging by third-generation authors that draw on the Second World War and the Shoah as their joint transcultural history raise the question how remembrance will be shaped and transmitted in the future, and how the future might be shaped by that very remembrance. Their answers include a range of strategies for participating in this process, among them the confident assertion that it is the task of their generation to determine this discourse collectively.