Contemporary Women's Writing in German : Changing the Subject Hardback
by Brigid (, Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Swansea) Haines, Margaret (, Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Manchester) Littler
Part of the Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture series
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Six key texts by contemporary women writers are read afresh by leading critics, using insights from poststructuralist and new materialist feminist theory.
Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, and Elfriede Jelinek have long been prominent in the fields of Austrian modernism, GDR writing, and avant-garde Austrian literature.
The innovative work of Anne Duden, Herta Müller, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar sets out to challenge dominant models of German identity.
Focusing on the body and suffering, they explore textual representations of trauma, national identity, and displacement.
Haines and Littler's readings of these distinguished and complex female authors offer new avenues for discussion.
Both critics and their subjects cast a sceptical eye over existing notions of subjectivity in relation to language, gender, and race.
Together, they spark controversy and comment, in an increasingly important debate.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/09/2004
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- ISBN:9780198159674
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/09/2004
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- ISBN:9780198159674
