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.
Author: | Johannes Görbert |
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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 |