"Rethinking 'minor literatures' - Contemporary Jewish women's writing in Germany and Austria"
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 92215928
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This statement outlines Roca Lizarazu’s substantial and demonstrable research contribution to the Modern Languages Open (MLO) special issue “Rethinking ‘Minor Literatures’ – Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria”. As co-editor of the special issue, Roca Lizarazu was responsible for the process of investigation, the composition and editing in a number of ways:
Firstly, Roca Lizarazu was responsible for developing the theme and research question of the special issue, which evolved from a workshop that she conceptualised and organised at the Institute of Modern Languages Research in April 2018 entitled “Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?”. The special issue – at Roca Lizarazu’s initiative - re-framed and expanded the subject of the workshop, turning it into an investigation of the concept of minor literatures through the lens of German-language Jewish writing rather than the other way around. Secondly, Roca Lizarazu’s contribution to the overall process of investigation is evidenced by the single-author introduction she wrote to accompany the special issue.
Thirdly, Roca Lizarazu was responsible for the composition of the special issue, based on pairs of scholars working on the same author, who were encouraged to exchange ideas during the writing process. This set-up aimed to reflect one of the conceptual touchstones of the special issue, namely Dan Miron’s notion of “contiguity”, i.e. (Jewish) literature as a series of unforeseeable and fleeting connections and overlaps rather than a stable essence.
Finally, Roca Lizarazu was actively involved in the pre-submission review, feedback and editing process, and, upon submission to the MLO platform, she became the main coordinator and point of contact for this part of the publication process. This included selecting and contacting peer-reviewers, managing the peer-reviewing process and deadlines and finalising the draft manuscript.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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