W.G. Sebald : : Schreiben ex patria = expatriate writing / / edited by Gerhard Fischer.

• Superior document: Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Neueren Germanistik, 72
• Author: Sydney German Studies Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Fischer, Gerhard, 1945-; Sydney German Studies Symposium (2006)
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 72.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (127 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers presented at the 2006 Sydney German Studies Symposium.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Acknowledgements /; Editor’s Note /; Abbreviations/Sigla /; Introduction: W.G. Sebald’s Expatriate Experience and His Literary Beginnings /; Schreiben ex patria: W.G. Sebald und die Konstruktion einer literarischen Identität /; “Lines of Flight”: History and Territory in The Rings of Saturn /; W.G. Sebald: The Ambulatory Narrative and the Poetics of Digression /; No Exile: Crossing the Border with Sebald and Améry /; Als Deutscher in der Fremde. Heimat, Geschichte und Natur bei W.G. Sebald /; Blinder Fleck – Zur Reflexion der Gewalt der Darstellung bei W.G. Sebald /; Against the Integration of Atrocity into Disaster: W.G. Sebald’s Work of Memory /; History in Things – Sebald and Benjamin on Transience and Detritus /; “The surest engagement with memory lies in its perpetual irresolution”. The Work of W.G. Sebald as Counter-Monument /; Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Great Library: A Documentary Study /; Literature and National Redemption in W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction /; Between Elias Canetti and Jacques Derrida: Satire and the Role of Fortifications in the Work of W.G. Sebald /; Zweierlei Allegorie: W.G.Sebalds Austerlitz und Stephan Wackwitz’ Ein unsichtbares Land /; “Seemann” oder “Ackermann”? Einige Überlegungen zu Sebalds Lektüre von Walter Benjamins Essay “Der Erzähler” /; Auszeit des Erzählens – W.G. Sebalds Poetik der Beschreibung /; Literary Historiography: W.G. Sebald’s Fiction /; Intermediale Identitätskonstruktion: Zu W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz /; Angles of Vision in Sebald’s After Nature and Unrecounted /; Sebald’s Strange Cinematic Prose: stasis and kinesis /; Images that Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz /; Creative Reflection: W.G. Sebald’s Critical Essays and Literary Fiction /; Sebald – der unduldsame Kritiker. Zu seinen literarischen Polemiken gegen Sternheim und Andersch /; Adler und Sebald, Lichtenstein und Grass: Vom Umgang mit Dokumentationen bei der literarischen Produktion /; Homeland and Displacement: The Status of the Text in Sebald and Proust /; Gesteigerte Formen der Wahrnehmung in Schwindel. Gefühle /; Die Melancholie des Ortes. Stadt, Gewalt und Erinnerung /; Against “Cartesian Rigidity”: W.G. Sebald’s Reception of Borges /; Contributors /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9042027827
• ISSN: 0304-6257
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gerhard Fischer.

This volume presents the work of internationally renowned scholars from Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, the UK and the US. The focus on W.G. Sebald’s writing as that of an expatriate author offers a fresh and productive approach to Sebald scholarship. In one way or another, all 28 essays in this innovative, bi-lingual collection take up the notion of Sebald’s experience as an expatriate writer: be it in the analysis of intertextual, transmedial and generic border crossings, on the “exposure to the other” and the experience of alterity, on the question of identity construction and performance, on affinities with other expatriate writers, on the recurring topics of “home”, “exile”, “dislocation” and “migration”, or on the continuing work of “memory” to work through and to preserve the consciousness of a destructive past that has informed the childhood as much as the adult life-world of the author.