Unnatural Disaster as Chronotope: “Lines” of Connection and Language as the “Flesh” of Time in Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Tales that Touch 1
5. Prelude
6. Der Name und die Zeit 25
7. The Name and the Time 27
8. Reframing Time and Exile
9. Suspended Time, Exile, and the Literature of Transnational Antifascism: Parentheses and Postscripts 31
10. Untimely Tales: Psychoanalysis as Spectral Modernism in Hans Keilson’s Novel, The Death of the Adversary 53
11. Future Sense and Refugee Time: Reading Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay as a Global Novel 73
12. Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer
13. Gaps and Tatting: Reading, Translating, Collecting (Anna O., Bertha Pappenheim, Uljana Wolf) 95
14. A Betweenness that Beckons: Rhythm and Rhyme in Tawada’s Poetic Time 119
15. Beyond Fidelity and Treason: On the Ironic Poetics of Translation 139
16. Jews, Animals, Migration: H. A. Rey’s Commercial and Non-Commercial Nature Drawings in Brazil 165
17. Narratological Itineraries
18. Belonging in the Folds of Fact and Fabulation: Fictionality, Narration, and Heimat in Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft 191
19. Intertextuality in Peter Schneider’s Narrative Fiction from Lenz to Couplings: An Essay 217
20. (Re)constructing Heimat: Intermedial Archives in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem Fest and Alexandra Saemmer’s “Böhmische Dörfer” 233
21. Communities / Constellations of the Aftermath
22. Private Precarity and Public Theory in Irene von Alberti’s The Long Summer of Theory 257
23. Unnatural Disaster as Chronotope: “Lines” of Connection and Language as the “Flesh” of Time in Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary 279
24. Writing Heimat: José F. A. Oliver at Heim with Paul Celan 297
25. Comparison Limits – “Touching Tales” of Atrocity: An Anthropologist’s Reflections 323
26. Envoi
27. Ausreisen oder Reißaus nehmen 335
28. To Exit or To Escape 337
29. Notes on Authors 339
30. Index 345