German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century

Buch | Hardcover
218 Seiten
2015
Camden House Inc (Verlag)
978-1-57113-584-1 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.



What is the status of women's writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has been conceived. With aneye to the literary and feminist legacy of authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant literary voices, including Hatice Akyün, Sibylle Berg,Thea Dorn, Tanja Dückers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Rávic Strubel -- authors who, through their writing or their roles in the media, engage with questionsof what it means to be a woman writer in twenty-first-century Germany.

Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill, Lindsay Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone.

Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Associate Professor of German at the University of Portland.

HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. ALEXANDRA MERLEY STEWART (formerly Alexandra Merley Hill) is Professor of German and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. ALEXANDRA MERLEY STEWART (formerly Alexandra Merley Hill) is Professor of German and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. JILL SUZANNE SMITH is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College. Katherine Stone is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Introduction: German Women's Writing Beyond the Gender Binary - Hester Baer and Alexandra Merley Hill
Language-Bodies: Interpellation and Gender Transition in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Judith Hermann's "Sonja" - Necia Chronister
Matrilineal Narrative and the Feminist Family Romance - Valerie Heffernan
The Pitfalls of Constructing a Female Genealogy: Cultural Memory of National Socialism in Recent Family Narratives - Katherine Stone
Reckoning with God: Attitudes toward Religion in German-Language Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century - Sheridan Marshall
Muslim Writing, Women's Writing - Lindsay Lawton
Popfeminism, Ethnicity, and Race in Contemporary Germany: Hatice Akyün's Popfeminist Autobiographic Works Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße (2005) and Ali zum Dessert (2008) - Mihaela Petrescu
The Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray - Carrie Smith-Prei
The Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray - Maria Stehle
The Indictment of Neoliberalism and Communism in the Novels of Katharina Hacker, Nikola Richter, Judith Schalansky, and Julia Schoch - Helga Druxes
Sounds of Silence: Rape and Representation in Juli Zeh's Bosnian Travelogue - Jill Suzanne Smith
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.5.2015
Reihe/Serie Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Co-Autor Professor Alexandra Merley Stewart, C. Smith-Prei / E. C. Smith-Prei / E. Herrmann, Professor Helga Helga Druxes
Verlagsort Columbia, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-57113-584-7 / 1571135847
ISBN-13 978-1-57113-584-1 / 9781571135841
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