Leslie A. Adelson

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Leslie Allen Adelson (born December 4, 1951 ) is an American literary scholar.

Life

Leslie A. Adelson was with a dissertation on 1982 Botho Strauss at the Washington University doctorate. Since 1983 she has been writing for the literary magazine New German Critique . In 1996 she became Professor of German Studies at Cornell University and headed the Institute for German Cultural Studies. In 2000, she translated Zafer Şenocak's Atlas of Tropical Germany into English and made the American German scholars aware of the influence of migration on contemporary German literature.

In 2014 Adelson co-founded the “Alexander Kluge Yearbook”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense. Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017 ISBN 9783110525649
  • Experiment Mars: Contemporary German Literature, Imaginative Ethnoscapes, and the New Futurism. In: Mark W. Rectanus (Ed.): About contemporary literature. Interpretations and interventions. Festschrift for Paul Michael Lützeler for his 65th birthday. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2008, pp. 23–50.
  • The Turkish turn in contemporary German literature. Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration . New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ISBN 1-4039-6913-2
  • (Ed.): The cultural after-life of East Germany: new transnational perspectives . Conference proceedings. Washington, DC: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2002
  • Zafer Şenocak : Atlas of a tropical Germany: essays on politics and culture, 1990–1998 . Translated into English and edited by Leslie A. Adelson. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000 ISBN 0-8032-9275-9 ( Atlas of tropical Germany , Berlin 1992)
  • 1971 One summer in the week of Itke K. by American-born Jeannette Lander is published. In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (Ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096 - 1996. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 1997, pp. 749-758.
  • Nothing like at home. Jeannette Lander and Ronnith Neumann on the utopian search for Jewish identity in the West German context . In: Jewish Culture and Femininity in Modernity . Böhlau, Cologne 1994, pp. 307-330.
  • Making bodies, making history. Feminism and German Identity . Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993
  • Crisis of subjectivity: Botho Strauss's challenge to West German prose of the 1970's . Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984 ISBN 90-6203-906-5
  • The poor man and “these holes in solidarity” - On the concept and function of femininity in Botho Strauss . In: Inge Stephan (Hrsg.): Literature in the historical process . Das Argument , special volume 144. 1983, pp. 165-186
  • Botho Strauss and West German prose of the 1970s . Washington: Washington Univ., 1982 Ph. D. Washington University 1982

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SURNAME Adelson, Leslie A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelson, Leslie Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1951