Die amerikanischen Götter

The linguae& litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Languageand Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically state of the art and interdisciplinarily open. In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based, quantitative and qualitative investigation of language; in literary studies the focus is on the comparative, transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and literary studies (as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences with which they interact). It seeks a new, contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and its problem and concept orientation for the future. The series has a clear international orientation - each volume is multilingual, containing German, English and French contributions and, depending on the volume, articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is peer reviewed by an international editorial board. Each year 2-4 volumes are published.

According to the German literary critic Karl Heinz Bohrer, it was "the American Gods", who, after 1945, "arose from the sea, chewing gum and listening to this wonderful new music." For many West German authors and musicians this encounter with American popular culture through Jazz, Beat, and Pop initiated a radical new beginning directed against European traditions that were increasingly seen as oppressive. This new literature calls for a culture of velocity, of the surface, and the popular. The intensive discussion and reception of American culture, which this volume examines, is more complex and varied than what the literary scholarship has been willing to acknowledge. This volume collects a dozen case studies on the reception of American pop culture from the genre's prehistory in the 1940s and 50s to the present. In addition, the book contains an interview with Thomas Meinecke, one of the leading novelists in the field of so-called "Popliteratur".

Autorentext
Stefan Höppner, Calgary, Kanada, und Jörg Kreienbrock, Northwestern University, USA.

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