Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum (2023)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (in press). Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum. Publications of the English Goethe Society,

This article discusses these two writers as examples of political and cultural commentators who were widely read and well respected in their lifetime but are now either forgotten (Hendrich) or a historical footnote (Brandes). The aim is to illustrate... Read More about Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum.

Britain, Germany, and Brexit: The ‘Cradle of Democracy’ and the ‘Heart of Europe’ as Different Legacies of the Nineteenth-century Idea of the ‘Germanic’ (2022)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (2022). Britain, Germany, and Brexit: The ‘Cradle of Democracy’ and the ‘Heart of Europe’ as Different Legacies of the Nineteenth-century Idea of the ‘Germanic’. Angermion, 15(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2022-0001

Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages (2017)
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Batchelor, K., & Harding, S. (Eds.). (2017). Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620626

This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the aut... Read More about Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages.

Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994 (2015)
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Hitchcott, N. (2015). Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

During what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and out... Read More about Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction after 1994.