Eva Kowollik, Gabriela Lehmann-Carli, Tatjana Petzer (ed./eds.)

(Südost-)Europa. Narrative der Bewegtheit
Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Angela Richter
[(Southeast) Europe. Narratives of Movement: Essays on the occasion of Angela Richter’s 65th Birthday]

Ost-West-Express. Kultur und Übersetzung vol. 29
Frank & Timme, Berlin 2017, 520 pages
ISBN 978-3-7329-0345-0

South-East Europe has produced a plethora of narratives that contain figures, literary constructions, and conceptual orders of ‘movement.’ The essays in this book investigate these by unfolding a wide variety of perspectives on the following themes:

  • Mobility, Migration, and Identity
  • Space and Genres
  • Empathy, Emotion, and Taboos.

The contributions elucidate the ways in which the concept of ‘movement’ plays an ambiguous, multi-functional, and constantly shifting role in literary and cultural theory—as well as in literary, cultural, and historical narratives—of South-East Europe, a role that oscillates between ‘physical movement’ and ‘internal moves.’