Asian Fusion: New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde

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1 While the difficulties of Discourse on Vietnam can, I believe, be distinguished from the question of Weiss’s ability, as a Jewish-German exile, to advance international solidarity through his literary works, Rupprecht draws on Weiss’s biographical writings to account for the play’s lack of place and failure to represent Vietnam aesthetically, such that it appears less as an engagement with Vietnam than as a “sign of disintegration, and a staging of [Weiss’s own] loss” (105).

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Matthew D. Miller

Matthew D. Miller is Associate Professor of German at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. His first book The German Epic in the Cold War: Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge appeared in 2018 at Northwestern University Press. He has published articles and book chapters on twentieth and twenty-first century Germanophone literature and culture, co-edited Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River, and is working on a new project on the literature and politics of the first Austrian republic with a focus on Red Vienna.