“Stories one tells in dark times”: Fabulation, fugitivity, and futurity in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst

• Published in: The German quarterly Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 75 - 92
• Main Author: Roca Lizarazu, Maria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cherry Hill American Association of Teachers of German, Inc 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Cultural Context; Experiments; Futures; German literature; Historiography; Literary criticism; Novels; Politics; Subjectivity; Trauma; Violence; Wenzel, Olivia; World History; Germany

This article engages with aesthetic acts of experimentation in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst . Building on recent scholarship on the politics of aesthetics in Wenzel's text, I argue that these experiments are intertwined with key themes in the book, particularly issues of racializ...