White Rebels in Black

Layne, Priscilla

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“…The implicit first element is a song written in the style of a sailors' shanty or marching song, probably in the early 1930s, and probably based on events from the Japanese-Russian war of 1904-5. 57 It was popularised in versions by Heino and Freddy Quinn. 58 Its sentimental lyrics revolve around sailors dying from drinking stale and contaminated water and talking before they die of young women and home.…”

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WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE¹

Colvin

2021

German Life and Letters

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I begin with a poem of Koepsell's that questions the writing of poetry in times of political upheaval, and whether words can save necks. I then examine the collection Die Akte James Knopf for possible answers to those questions. José Medina conceptualises epistemic death, and Koepsell reveals the closeness of epistemic and actual death. I read Die Akte James Knopf as both a poetry collection and a dossier of evidence in a case of epistemic murder; it uncovers the mechanisms of racialised knowledge production/perpetuation, and produces what David Lloyd has called poetic justice. Medina writes of guerilla pluralism, which in this context I call provoking pluralism, because it privileges linguistic intervention over violence. In its grammar and effects, provoking pluralism is both irritating and potentially generative. I also conceive of ‘guerilla epistemology’, which operates a reversal, or revolution, of epistemic privilege. Koepsell provokingly acknowledges that the violence of epistemic injustice is, like other kinds of violence, tied to pleasure: racialised injustice sells. With his poetry and strategic use of humour, I argue, he produces counter‐pleasure, which infiltrates dominant knowledge and stimulates change. It might one day save someone's neck.

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Section: Epistemic and Other Murdersmentioning

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WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE¹

Colvin

2021

German Life and Letters

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Documents of Colonialism and Racial Theorizing in the German Classroom

Torner

2020

Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies

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White German Agency in the Science Fiction Films Transfer (2010), Die kommenden Tage (2010), Hell (2011)

Torner

2022

Studies in Global Science Fiction

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White Rebels in Black

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WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE¹

WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE¹

Documents of Colonialism and Racial Theorizing in the German Classroom

White German Agency in the Science Fiction Films Transfer (2010), Die kommenden Tage (2010), Hell (2011)

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WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE1

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Documents of Colonialism and Racial Theorizing in the German Classroom

White German Agency in the Science Fiction Films Transfer (2010), Die kommenden Tage (2010), Hell (2011)

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WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE¹

WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE¹