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Erinnerung an die Zukunft

Remembering the Future

  • The following article investigates assessments of the Pacific Ocean as the ›sea of the future‹, following a Mediterranean past and an Atlantic present, and standing in a stark contrast to the ›exotic‹, marginalised view of its islands and shores. It analyses three German-language texts from the era of the Second World War: Egon Erwin Kisch’s travelogue Secret China (China geheim, 1933), Vicki Baum’s Hotel Shanghai (1939), and Alfred Döblin’s short expository text The Golden Gate (Das Goldene Tor, 1946). Despite the many variations in their portrayals of wars and crises, migrations and acculturations, breakdowns and new beginnings around the Pacific Ocean, all three authors evaluate the challenge posed by the transpacific triangle evolving around China, Japan, and the US to Europe’s self-postulated role as a leading continent. In that vein, they are (re-)activating a specific lieu de mémoire of a Pacific future in world affairs, in hopes of heightening transcultural self-understanding and self-positioning in times of crisis.

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Author:Johannes Görbert
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-14082
DOI (Version of Record):https://doi.org/10.14361/zig-2020-110209
ISSN:2198-0330
Parent Title (German):Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik
Subtitle (German):Der Pazifische Ozean als Herausforderung für die europäische Moderne – am Beispiel ›transpazifischer‹ Texte von Egon Erwin Kisch, Vicki Baum und Alfred Döblin (1933-1946)
Subtitle (English):The Pacific Ocean as a Challenge to European Mo-dernity – the Example of ›Transpacific‹ Texts by Egon Erwin Kisch, Vicki Baum and Alfred Döblin (1933-1946)
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Year of Publication:2020
Publishing Institution:Technische Hochschule Wildau
Release Date:2021/06/22
Tag:Baum, Vicki (1888-1960); Döblin, Alfred (1878-1957); Kisch, Egon Erwin (1885-1948)
Pacific Ocean
lieux de mémoire
Volume:11
Issue:2
First Page:115
Last Page:128
Source:Görbert, Johannes. "Erinnerung an die Zukunft" Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020, pp. 115-128. https://doi.org/10.14361/zig-2020-110209
Faculties an central facilities:Zentrale Einrichtungen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 303 Gesellschaftliche Prozesse
4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International
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