Mackenthun, Gesa
Gesa Mackenthun is professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include Metaphors of Dispossession. American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire (1997), Fictions of the Black Atlantic (2004), and the co-edited volumes Decolonizing ‘Prehistory’. Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (with Christen Mucher, 2021), Sea Changes. Historicizing the Ocean (with Bernhard Klein, 2004), Entangled Knowledge. Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference (with Klaus Hock, 2012), and DEcolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory (with Aníbal Arregui, 2017). Her current research deals with representations of the transatlantic history of enclosures, evictions, and ecocide.
Publications at WAXMANN:
Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past
2021, 240 pages, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-4386-0
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, 1. Auflage, 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
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses
2010, 1. Auflage, 296 pages, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2375-6
New Perspectives on Cultural Contact
2009, 1. Auflage, 232 pages, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2124-0