Foreign Water: Yoko Tawada’s Poetics of Porosity in “Where Europe Begins”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: “Gender, Germanness, and the Spatial Turn” 1
4. I. Transnational Spaces: Mobility and Migration
5. Space Across Time and Place 19
6. “Full Steam Ahead!”: Technology, Mobility, and Human Progress in Ottilie Assing’s “Reports from America” 21
7. Dragica Rajcic: War, Space, and No-Place 41
8. Foreign Water: Yoko Tawada’s Poetics of Porosity in “Where Europe Begins” 57
9. Sensing America: Yoko Tawada’s Synesthetic Meditation on Linguistic Spaces in Foreign Tongues 79
10. II. Seeking Space: Gender and Regulation
11. Spaces Within 99
12. Repositioning the Exiled Body: Alja Rachmanowa’s Trilogy My Russian Diaries 101
13. The Violated Female Body: Abjection and Spatial Ensnarement in Inka Parei’s The Shadow-Boxing Woman 121
14. Homesick: Longing for Domestic Spaces in the Works of Julia Franck 133
15. Judith Hermann’s “Summerhouse, Later”: Gender Ambiguity and Smooth versus Striated Spaces 149
16. III. Revisited Spaces: Repositionings and Points of Encounter
17. Marginalized Spaces, Marginalized Inhabitants 169
18. Elisabeth Langgässer’s Theology of Place: Germany after the Third Reich 171
19. Female Topographies: Depiction and Semanticization of Fictional Space in Monika Maron’s Silent Close No. 6 193
20. Chance Encounters: The Secrets of Irina Liebmann’s Quiet Center of Berlin (2001) 211
21. The View from the Parking Lot: Political Landscapes and Natural Environments in the Works of Brigitta Kronauer and Jenny Erpenbeck 229
22. Works Cited 247
23. Notes on Contributors 267
24. Index 269