Scenarios of Post-Sovereignty in Contemporary, German-Speaking Literature

该研究项目从文学研究和文化叙事学的角度审视宪法和国际法的变化，特别关注当代德语文学中的后主权情景。语料库具体包括涉及政治和法律框架的不稳定以及文学技巧如何在这些参数范围内发挥作用的文本。对涉及政治和国际法的社会的经典自我描述是基于国家主权以及战争与和平、例外状态与正常状态的明确区分。然而，由于新的地缘政治星座和新形式的战争和恐怖主义，这些传统的世界秩序模式正在崩溃。在文学中，我们发现了涉及政治转型的后主权叙事的形式和技巧。文学文本呈现的是没有主权叙述者、没有空间框架、没有连贯情节的认识论叙事。因此，文本似乎更充分地反映了这些新的全球化政治结构。在语言和叙事以及文学转向的主题上，这些作品都体现了政治主权的当代转换，进而揭示了后主权时代的社会、个人和审美后果。

The research project examines shifts in constitutional and international law from the perspective of literary studies and cultural narratology with a special focus on scenarios of post-sovereignty in contemporary, German-speaking literature. The corpus specifically includes texts that engage with the destabilization of political and legal frameworks and of how literary techniques work within those parameters. Classical self-descriptions of a society that deal with politics and international law are grounded on the sovereignty of states and a clear distinction between war and peace, state of exception and normality. These traditional models of world order are, however, collapsing as a result of new geopolitical constellations and new forms of war and terrorism. In literature, we find forms and techniques of post-sovereign narration that deal with the transformation of the political. Literary texts present epistemically informed narratives without sovereign narrators, without spatial framings, and without coherent plots. As such the texts seem to reflect more adequately these new globalized political structures. In terms of language and narration as well as the topics that literature turns to, the contemporary transformation of political sovereignty appears in these works, which in turn bring to light the social, individual, and aesthetic consequences of post-sovereignty.