Spatial turns : space, place, and mobility in German literary and visual culture / / edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel.

• Superior document: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 75
• TeilnehmendeR: Fisher, Jaimey.; Mennel, Barbara Caroline.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; Bd. 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Acknowledgements /; Introduction /; Mapping Vision: Goethe, Cartography, and the Novel /; Just How Naughty was Berlin? The Geography of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Curt Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide /; Mapping a Human Geography: Spatiality in Uwe Johnson’s Mutmassungen über Jakob [Speculations about Jakob, 1959] /; Historical Space: Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt [Measuring the World, 2005] /; Gendered Urban Spaces: Cultural Mediations on the City in Eighteenth-Century German Women’s Writing /; The Roots of German Theater’s “Spatial Turn”: Gerhart Hauptmann’s Social-Spatial Dramas /; Urban Mediations: The Theoretical Space of Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster /; Protesting the Globalized Metropolis: The Local as Counterspace in Recent Berlin Literature /; Transnational Cinema and the Ruins of Berlin and Havana: Die neue Kunst, Ruinen zu bauen [The New Art of Making Ruins, 2007] and Suite Habana (2003)1 /; From the Desert to the City and Back: Nomads and the Spaces of Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan [West-Eastern Divan, 1819/1827] /; Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Alfred Döblin’s Reise in Polen [Journey to Poland, 1925] /; The Feminine Topography of Zion: Mapping Gertrud Kolmar’s Poetic Imagination /; Jewish Colonia as Heimat in the Pampas: Robert Schopflocher’s Explorations of Thirdspace in Argentina /; Rewriting Home and Migration: Spatiality in the Narratives of Emine Sevgi Özdamar /; Transcultural Space and Music: Fatih Akın’s Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) /; The Cult of the Cold and the Gendered Body in Mountain Films /; Panoptic Paranoia and Phantasmagoria: Fritz Lang’s Nocturnal City /; Subjective Topographies: Berlin in Post-Wall Photography /; Kreuzberg as Relational Place: Respatializing the “Ghetto” in Bettina Blümner’s Prinzessinnenbad [Pool of Princesses, 2007] /; Digital Geographies: Berlin in the Ages of New Media /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282643053; 9786612643057; 904203002X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel.

The phrase “spatial turns” signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: “Mapping Spaces” addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; “Spaces of the Urban” takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; “Spaces of Encounter” considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and “Visualized Spaces” concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.