Mackenthun, Gesa
Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her publications include Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature (2004), Metaphors of Dispossession. American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire, 1492–1637 (1997), and Sea Changes. Historicizing the Ocean (co-edited with Bernhard Klein, 2004). In 2006, she founded the graduate school “Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship” at Rostock University (German Research Foundation) and has co-edited seven research volumes on various aspects of this problematic (including Entangled Knowledge. Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference, 2012, and Fugitive Knowledge, 2015). Her current research deals with nineteenth-century travel and archaeology and the scientific construction of American antiquity.
Publications at WAXMANN:
Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory
2018, 278 pages, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3790-6
Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge
2017, 316 pages, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3567-4
The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones
2015, 232 pages, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3281-9
Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens
2013, 316 pages, paperback, with numerous illustrations, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3002-0
Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference
2012, 310 pages, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2729-7
Embodiments of Cultural Encounters
2011, 272 pages, paperback, mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Abbildungen, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2548-4
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses
2010, 296 pages, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2375-6
New Perspectives on Cultural Contact
2009, 232 pages, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2124-0