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Writing to Change the World - Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Writing to Change the World - Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a
principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an
exemplar and reading her alongside prominent contemporaries:
Brecht, Carpentier, and Spivak. In the twentieth century, leftist
authors around the world understood their writing as an act of
solidarity, but their common project was obscured by the end of the
Cold War and the dismantling of socialist states. This book begins
to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of
authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983), one of the most
important German writers of her time, as an exemplar. Like other
leftist authors in other languages and contexts, Seghers emphasized
how people are implicated in global economic inequality and efforts
to change it. Writing to Change the World introduces Seghers's
concept of solidarian authorship by telling the story of an award,
still in existence today, that she bequeathed to support East
German and Latin American authors. The book then follows the
history of the idea by reading Seghers alongside prominent
contemporaries: the German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht in
the 1930s, the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier in the 1960s, and
the Indian scholar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in the
1980s. These writers thematized and critiqued solidarity, often by
depicting characters who forge connections across borders. In doing
so, they also commented on the literary institutions that fostered
their own work. Providing new evidence for Seghers's global
relevance beyond German literature, Writingto Change the World
argues for the continued significance of solidarity both as a model
of global authorship and as a framework for analysis of world
literature. In doing so, it refocuses attention on global
structures of inequality and collective imaginings of a better
world. Marike Janzen is Assistant Professor of Humanities and
Courtesy Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
at the University of Kansas.
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