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.

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 studie...

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Other Authors: Daffner, Carola, Muellner, Beth A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, 2015.
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
Subjects:
1900-1999
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
German literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Space perception in literature.
Space in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Culture in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
Culture in literature
German literature
German literature > Women authors
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Space in literature
Space perception in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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