German women writers and the spatial turn : new perspectives /
German women writers and the spatial turn : new perspectives /
edited by Carola Daffener and Beth A. Muellner.
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; v. 17 .
- Interdisciplinary German cultural studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents; Introduction: "Gender, Germanness, and the Spatial Turn"; I. Transnational Spaces: Mobility and Migration; Space Across Time and Place; "Full Steam Ahead!": Technology, Mobility, and Human Progress in Ottilie Assing's "Reports from America"; Dragica Rajcic: War, Space, and No-Place; Foreign Water: Yoko Tawada's Poetics of Porosity in "Where Europe Begins"; Sensing America: Yoko Tawada's Synesthetic Meditation on Linguistic Spaces in Foreign Tongues; II. Seeking Space: Gender and Regulation; Spaces Within. Repositioning the Exiled Body: Alja Rachmanowa's Trilogy My Russian DiariesThe Violated Female Body: Abjection and Spatial Ensnarement in Inka Parei's The Shadow-Boxing Woman; Homesick: Longing for Domestic Spaces in the Works of Julia Franck; Judith Hermann's "Summerhouse, Later": Gender Ambiguity and Smooth versus Striated Spaces; III. Revisited Spaces: Repositionings and Points of Encounter; Marginalized Spaces, Marginalized Inhabitants; Elisabeth Langgässer's Theology of Place: Germany after the Third Reich. Female Topographies: Depiction and Semanticization of Fictional Space in Monika Maron's Silent Close No. 6Chance Encounters: The Secrets of Irina Liebmann's Quiet Center of Berlin (2001); The View from the Parking Lot: Political Landscapes and Natural Environments in the Works of Brigitta Kronauer and Jenny Erpenbeck; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index.
In the last few decades, the phrase "spatial turn" has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The collection of essays, German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives, connects spatial studies, German studies, and women's writing, and emphasizes a return to the written word as an original site of cultural interrogation.
3110378280 (ebook) 9783110378283 (ebook) 9783110392333 (electronic bk.) 311039233X (electronic bk.) (print)
808037 MIL
1900-1999
German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Space perception in literature.
Space in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Culture in literature.
Littérature allemande--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Perception spatiale dans la littérature.
Espace dans la littérature.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Culture dans la littérature.
Culture in literature.
German literature.
German literature--Women authors.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Space in literature.
Space perception in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PT1334
830.9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents; Introduction: "Gender, Germanness, and the Spatial Turn"; I. Transnational Spaces: Mobility and Migration; Space Across Time and Place; "Full Steam Ahead!": Technology, Mobility, and Human Progress in Ottilie Assing's "Reports from America"; Dragica Rajcic: War, Space, and No-Place; Foreign Water: Yoko Tawada's Poetics of Porosity in "Where Europe Begins"; Sensing America: Yoko Tawada's Synesthetic Meditation on Linguistic Spaces in Foreign Tongues; II. Seeking Space: Gender and Regulation; Spaces Within. Repositioning the Exiled Body: Alja Rachmanowa's Trilogy My Russian DiariesThe Violated Female Body: Abjection and Spatial Ensnarement in Inka Parei's The Shadow-Boxing Woman; Homesick: Longing for Domestic Spaces in the Works of Julia Franck; Judith Hermann's "Summerhouse, Later": Gender Ambiguity and Smooth versus Striated Spaces; III. Revisited Spaces: Repositionings and Points of Encounter; Marginalized Spaces, Marginalized Inhabitants; Elisabeth Langgässer's Theology of Place: Germany after the Third Reich. Female Topographies: Depiction and Semanticization of Fictional Space in Monika Maron's Silent Close No. 6Chance Encounters: The Secrets of Irina Liebmann's Quiet Center of Berlin (2001); The View from the Parking Lot: Political Landscapes and Natural Environments in the Works of Brigitta Kronauer and Jenny Erpenbeck; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index.
In the last few decades, the phrase "spatial turn" has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The collection of essays, German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives, connects spatial studies, German studies, and women's writing, and emphasizes a return to the written word as an original site of cultural interrogation.
3110378280 (ebook) 9783110378283 (ebook) 9783110392333 (electronic bk.) 311039233X (electronic bk.) (print)
808037 MIL
1900-1999
German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Space perception in literature.
Space in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Culture in literature.
Littérature allemande--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Perception spatiale dans la littérature.
Espace dans la littérature.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Culture dans la littérature.
Culture in literature.
German literature.
German literature--Women authors.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Space in literature.
Space perception in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PT1334
830.9