Nadja Gernalzick Bücher

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche und philosophische Werttheorien gehen im 20. Jahrhundert in die semiotische Ubernahme des seit der Antike gelaufigen Vergleichs von Sprache und Geld ein. Die strukturalistische Angleichung des linguistischen Zeichenwerts an den relativen Wertbegriff der Wirtschaftswissenschaft Anfang des Jahrhunderts gipfelt in der Korrelation von Sprachtheorie und Geldtheorie im Poststrukturalismus und in der Dekonstruktion seit den 60er Jahren. Zum ersten Mal wird hier gezeigt, wie Derridas Theorie der Dekonstruktion - anders als poststrukturalistische Ansatze - mit dem Begriff der differance zur Beschreibung von Effekten der Temporalitat die fortschrittlichste Reflexion auf die zeitgenossische Geldtheorie und Theorie der Fiktionalitat und Spekulation Die aristotelische Trennung von Okonomik und Chrematistik, von Naturaltauschwirtschaft und Geldwirtschaft, erfahrt eine nach der keynesianischen Kritik der Dichotomie von Realanalyse und monetarer Analyse in den 30er Jahren langst auch fur die philosophische Kritik der Okonomie und fur die Axiologie uberfallige Aufhebung.

Transnational American Studies have been developed by international and internationally minded scholars to address the need for border-crossing awareness, knowledge and consciousness of difference. In a decisive change from the comparativist pattern of investigation between two or more assumed units, the transnational approach intends a further opening of cultural systems. With their transnational turn, the focus of American Studies has become relocated to increasingly international and global concerns of knowledge production and cultural transfer as well as to multi- and transnational discourses. This volume combines Transnational American Studies from diverse angles in the four general areas “Repositioning the American South”, “Life, Literature, Ecocriticism”, “Life Writing and Medicine” and “Critical Studies of the Nation”. Written by scholars disciplinarily and institutionally linked to American Studies departments mainly, the themes are, however, not restricted to American Studies as a nationally bound field, but extend and pertain to transnational and global discourses and their conceptual composition and processing.

Drawing on grammatology, historical semantics and discourse theory, ‘Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography’ treats automediality in semiotic materiality and transmediality as processuality and relationality of agency at an intersection of auto/biography studies, film studies and media studies, reviews concepts of time in philosophy, sociology, cinema studies and narratology, and applies critical vocabularies of temporality and temporalization in an extended analysis of two classics of 1970s American filmic autobiography, ‘Film Portrait’ by Jerome Hill and ‘Joyce at 34’ by Joyce Chopra and Claudia Weill. The study of film, time and self-processing develops the grammatology of cinema from contemporary positions on cinematic semiosis, temporality, and contingency, filmic and postfilmic cinema, documentary-style film, deixis across media, and the trace as critical vocabulary. Among supplementary tables, a chapter offers an overview of the canonization and transnationalization of cinematic autobiography in anglophone research.

The terms transmediality and transculturality suggest both transcendence and procedurality. Since the mid-20th century, these concepts have entered debates surrounding cultural and medial sectionalisms, often overshadowed by competing terms like inter- or multiculturality and inter- or multimediality, which reinforce distinctions of privilege and hierarchy. As pragmatic alternatives, transmediality and transculturality aim to describe experiences with enhanced realism and temporary adequacy. This volume features essays from scholars in American Studies, Inter-American Studies, Media Studies, and Comparative Literature and Culture, examining transmediality and transculturality across diverse perspectives, cultural contexts, and languages, spanning from the Renaissance to the 21st century, with works originating from Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. The first section traces the origins of transmediality to intermedia concepts in post-World War II transatlantic culture. The second section focuses on Cuban sociologist Fernando Ortíz, who introduced the term transculturation in the 1940s, initiating its academic exploration. The final section presents essays that investigate the contemporary relevance of correlating both terms to develop a general typology of cultural and medial phenomena.