Prompt #8

Blog Prompts for Transnationalism Course

Posts by Group C due on November 11

Comments by Group A due on November 12

1) Discuss Helene Hegemann’s sampling of global pop culture and/or intertextual references to world literature in Axolotl Roadkill in the context of transnational literary production and reception. For more on Hegemann’s controversial literary technique, see here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html?_r=0

2) Develop an analysis of Axolotol Roadkill in light of Woltersdorff’s arguments about precarious sexualities. How does Hegemann’s novel represent neoliberal sexualities and gender identities? Does the novel stage a political intervention into feminist/queer/transnational discourses of gender and sexuality?