Writing against Boundaries
Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
231 pages
978-90-420-1026-0 (ISBN)
Description
Writing against Boundaries. Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context presents a series of essays by prominent scholars who critically explore the intersection of nation and subjectivity, the production of national identities, and the tense negotiation of multiculturalism in German-speaking countries. By looking at a wide spectrum of texts that range from Richard Wagner's operas to Hans Bellmer's art, and to literature by Aras OEren, Irene Dische, Annette Kolb, Elizabeth Langgaesser, Karin Reschke, Christa Wolf, to contemporary German theater by Bettina Fless, Elfriede Jelinek, Anna Langhoff, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, and to Monika Treut's films, the volume explores the intersection of gender, ethnicity and nation and examines concepts of national culture and the foreigner or so-called 'other.' Focusing on such issues as immigration, xenophobia, gender, and sexuality, the volume looks at narratives that sustain the myth of a homogeneous nation, and those that disrupt it. It responds to a growing concern with borders and identity in a time in which borders are tightening as the demands of globalization increase.
Reviews / Votes
"... the work as a whole is useful and enlightening." - in: German Studies Review, Vol. 27, nr. 3 (Oct. 2004)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1026-0 (9789042010260)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Barbara KOSTA and Helga KRAFT: Introduction: Writing against Boundaries
MONIKA SCHAUSTEN: "Only Germany raises real men for the world": Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, Nation, and the Third Reich
Martha KAARSBERG WALLACH: Exile and Nation, Body and Gender in the Works of Talvj (1797-1870)
Vivian LISKA: The "New Woman" as a Foreigner: Individual and National Identity in Annette
Kolb's novel Das Exemplar
Claudia BREGER: Narratives of Nomadism or Copying German Culture
Susanne BAACKMANN: Symptomatic Bodies: Fascism, Gender and Hans Bellmer's Dolls
Barbara KOSTA: Murderous Boundaries: Nation, Memory and Austria's Fascist Past in Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl
Elizabeth LOENTZ: A Turkish-German Odyssey: Aras OEren's Eine verspaetete Abrechnung oder Der Aufstieg der Guendogdus
Helga W. KRAFT: Staging Xenophobia in the 1990s: The Political Plays of Bettina Fless, Anna Langhoff, and Emine Sevgi OEzdamar
Inge STEPHAN: The Bad Mothers: Medea-Myths and National Discourse in Texts from Elisabeth Langgaesser and Christa Wolf
Helga W. KRAFT: Searching for a Motherland: Women Breaking Their Generational Chains in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Sommerstueck, and Medea. Stimmen
Elke LIEBS: The Body as Exile in the Works of Irene Dische
Andrea REIMANN: New German Cinema's Boundaries Opened: Postmodern Authorship and Nationality in Monika Treut's Films of the 1980s
Bibliography and Filmography
Contributors to this Volume
Index
MONIKA SCHAUSTEN: "Only Germany raises real men for the world": Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, Nation, and the Third Reich
Martha KAARSBERG WALLACH: Exile and Nation, Body and Gender in the Works of Talvj (1797-1870)
Vivian LISKA: The "New Woman" as a Foreigner: Individual and National Identity in Annette
Kolb's novel Das Exemplar
Claudia BREGER: Narratives of Nomadism or Copying German Culture
Susanne BAACKMANN: Symptomatic Bodies: Fascism, Gender and Hans Bellmer's Dolls
Barbara KOSTA: Murderous Boundaries: Nation, Memory and Austria's Fascist Past in Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl
Elizabeth LOENTZ: A Turkish-German Odyssey: Aras OEren's Eine verspaetete Abrechnung oder Der Aufstieg der Guendogdus
Helga W. KRAFT: Staging Xenophobia in the 1990s: The Political Plays of Bettina Fless, Anna Langhoff, and Emine Sevgi OEzdamar
Inge STEPHAN: The Bad Mothers: Medea-Myths and National Discourse in Texts from Elisabeth Langgaesser and Christa Wolf
Helga W. KRAFT: Searching for a Motherland: Women Breaking Their Generational Chains in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Sommerstueck, and Medea. Stimmen
Elke LIEBS: The Body as Exile in the Works of Irene Dische
Andrea REIMANN: New German Cinema's Boundaries Opened: Postmodern Authorship and Nationality in Monika Treut's Films of the 1980s
Bibliography and Filmography
Contributors to this Volume
Index