The Wounded Self
Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2018
246 pages
978-1-78744-287-0 (ISBN)
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Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.
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NINA SCHMIDT holds a doctorate in literary and cultural studies from the University of Sheffield. Her most recent academic position was as a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin.
NINA SCHMIDT holds a doctorate in literary and cultural studies from the University of Sheffield. Her most recent academic position was as a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Content
Introduction: Contemporary German-Language Illness Writing as Literature; Analyzing Narrative Strategies, Aesthetic Forms, and Experimentations with Genre through the Lens of Disability Theory
Autofiction, Disgust, and Trauma: Negotiating Vulnerable Subject Positions in Charlotte Roche's Schoßgebete (2011)
Looking Beyond the Self - Reflecting the Other: Staring as a Narrative Device in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht (2009)
Intertextuality and the Transnational in Verena Stefan's Fremdschläfer (2007): Writing Breast Cancer from beyond the Border
Confronting Cancer Publicly: Diary Writing in Extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf
Conclusion: "Und was dann"; Recent Developments and Research Desiderata
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Autofiction, Disgust, and Trauma: Negotiating Vulnerable Subject Positions in Charlotte Roche's Schoßgebete (2011)
Looking Beyond the Self - Reflecting the Other: Staring as a Narrative Device in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht (2009)
Intertextuality and the Transnational in Verena Stefan's Fremdschläfer (2007): Writing Breast Cancer from beyond the Border
Confronting Cancer Publicly: Diary Writing in Extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf
Conclusion: "Und was dann"; Recent Developments and Research Desiderata
Notes
Bibliography
Index
