Hermann Herlinghaus

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Hermann Herlinghaus (* 1954 in Berlin ) is a German Romance scholar and professor of Latin American literature at the Romance Department of the University of Freiburg . His research and teaching focuses on Latin American literature and cultures, Latin American film history, “cultural studies”, theories and global historicity of modernity, cultural studies and anthropology .

Life

Herlinghaus studied Latin American studies at the University of Rostock from 1976 to 1981 , where he received his doctorate in 1986 . He completed his habilitation in Romance languages ​​and literature in 1993 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1991 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL). From 2000 to 2010 he held a chair in Latin American literatures and cultural studies at the University of Pittsburgh . In 2010 he was appointed professor of Latin American literature at the Romance Department at the University of Freiburg .

Scientific work

Herlinghaus teaches Latin American literature, film history and “cultural studies”. His research focuses on the epistemological location of Latin American culture in the context of Western modernity. He worked on the heterogeneity of Latin and inter-American literary processes, on the conceptual history of popular culture and on US Latino filmmaking.

His publications span the spectrum from a heterogeneous modernity to the cultural processes of the “ Global South ”. Particular attention is paid to the problem of violence and the symptoms of conflicts over psychoactive substances in Western culture .

Herlinghaus published two groundbreaking monographs on the new literary formation of narco epics / narconarrations in Latin America and Inter America (Violence Without Guilt, Narcoepics). As part of international comparative research, he introduced the terms “psychoactive modernity” and “global aesthetics of sobriety” into the discussion. His current research is in pharmacological anthropology and ecological literature.

Fonts

Monographs (selection)

  • Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety. New York - London - New Delhi - Sydney, Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Renarración y descentramiento: Mapas alternativos de la imaginación en America Latina. Madrid - Frankfurt Main, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2004.
  • Popular / folk / popular culture. (monographic article), in: Karlheinz Barck et al. eds., Aesthetic Basic Concepts, Volume 4, Stuttgart - Weimar, Verlag JB Metzler, 2002.
  • Modernidad heterogénea. Descentramientos hermenéuticos desde la comunicación en América Latina. Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2000.
  • Intermediality as a narrative experience. Frankfurt Main, Peter Lang, 1994.
  • Alejo Carpentier. Personal story of a literary modern project. Munich, text + criticism, 1991.

Anthologies

  • The Pharmakon: Concept Figure, Image of Transgression, Poetic Practice. Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018.
  • Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: Melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latin. Santiago de Chile, Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2002.
  • with Jesús Martín-Barbero: Contemporaneidad latinoamericana y análisis cultural. Conversaciones al encuentro de Walter Benjamin. Madrid - Frankfurt Main, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2000.
  • with Utz Riese: heterotopias of identity. Literature in Inter-American Contact Zones. Heidelberg, University Press C. Winter, 1999.
  • with Utz Riese: Jumps in the mirror. Postcolonial aporias of modernity in both Americas. Bonn, Bouvier Verlag, 1997.
  • with Monika Walter: Posmodernidad en la periferia. Enfoques latinoamericanos de la nueva teoría cultural. Berlin, Langer Verlag, 1994.
  • Novel art in Latin America. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Herlinghaus University of Freiburg
  2. ↑ Cf. Heterotopien der Identity (1999), Contemporaneidad latinoamericana y análisis cultural (2000), Modernidad heterogénea (2000), Fronteras de la modernidad (2003).
  3. ↑ See “Popular / folksy / Popularkultur” (2002), Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad (2002).
  4. ↑ See Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South (2009).
  5. ↑ See Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety (2013).
  6. ↑ See Narcoepics: A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety (2013).
  7. ↑ See The Pharmakon: Concept Figure, Image of Transgression, Poetic Practice.
  8. ↑ Drugs and Intoxication in the Literature. Interview with H. Herlinghaus. In: Muße - a magazine 1/2017
personal data
SURNAME Herlinghaus, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin