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German women writers and the spatial turn : new perspectives /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Daffner, Carola, Muellner, Beth A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, 2015.
Colección:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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  • 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.