Writing against boundaries : : nationality, ethnicity and gender in the German-speaking context / / Barbara Kosta, Helga Kraft, editors.

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 G...

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Superior document:Amsterdamer Publikationen Zur Sprache und Literatur ; 153
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, 2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 153.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Ören's Eine verspätete Abrechnung oder Der Aufstieg der Gündoğdus
  • Helga W. KRAFT: Staging Xenophobia in the 1990s: The Political Plays of Bettina Fless, Anna Langhoff, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar
  • Inge STEPHAN: The Bad Mothers: Medea-Myths and National Discourse in Texts from Elisabeth Langgässer and Christa Wolf
  • Helga W. KRAFT: Searching for a Motherland: Women Breaking Their Generational Chains in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Sommerstück, 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.