Asian Fusion

is Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of (2013) and (2006) and the translator, with an introduction, of Unica Zürn’s 1969 novella (2000).

«Asian Fusion is a remarkably original book that delineates an exciting new field: Asian- German cultural studies. Using an innovative call-and-response model, Rupprecht records the responses of contemporary Asian-German writers to the ‹calls› made by a preceding generation of German artists and writers (Joseph Beuys, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald) toward Asia. A compelling and authoritative work!» (John Zilcosky, author of Kafka’s Travels and Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis and the End of Alterity) «In Asian Fusion, Caroline Rupprecht ingeniously pairs three postwar German authors who engaged with Asia with three award-winning Asian-German writers, constructing compelling intergenerational dialogues between Sebald and Tawada, Weiss and Pham, and Beuys and Kim. Taking the Shoah as a point of departure and a point of reference, the book shoulders the intellectual as well as ethical responsibilities of addressing racism in Germany. A great read and a major contribution to Asian-German Studies!» (Qinna Shen, Chair and Associate Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College) «... Rupprecht takes an important ethical stance and aims to create a discursive space and theoretical framework for racism against East Asians ... Rupprecht's call for recognizing that German minorities - Jews, Blacks, or Asians - have 'the right to belong' is especially urgent at a moment when the New Right is on the rise.» (Qinna Shen, Monatshefte, Vol. 113, No. 2, 2021)