German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

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German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

Edited by: Carola Daffner and Beth A. Muellner

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 17 | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

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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 volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.

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Carola Daffner, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA; Beth A. Muellner, College of Wooster, USA.

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"Overall, the volume is well conceived and well organized; the twelve essays build on each other and reinforce each other in useful ways. [...] this is a stimulating and thoughtprovoking volume. The essays it contains are theoretically informed and they offer many original insights. This volume represents a significant contribution to scholarship on contemporary women’s writing in German and will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in the intersection of literary and spatial studies."
Valerie Heffernan in: Monatshefte, Vol. 109, No. 4, 2017, pp. 696-699

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: “Gender, Germanness, and the Spatial Turn” Carola Daffner and Beth Muellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. Transnational Spaces: Mobility and Migration
Space Across Time and Place Beth Muellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
“Full Steam Ahead!”: Technology, Mobility, and Human Progress in Ottilie Assing’s “Reports from America” Traci S. O’Brien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Dragica Rajcic: War, Space, and No-Place Laurel Cohen-Pfister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
Foreign Water: Yoko Tawada’s Poetics of Porosity in “Where Europe Begins” Silja Maehl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Sensing America: Yoko Tawada’s Synesthetic Meditation on Linguistic Spaces in Foreign Tongues Chase Dimock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
II. Seeking Space: Gender and Regulation
Spaces Within Beth Muellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Repositioning the Exiled Body: Alja Rachmanowa’s Trilogy My Russian Diaries Xenia Srebrianski Harwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
The Violated Female Body: Abjection and Spatial Ensnarement in Inka Parei’s The Shadow-Boxing Woman Elaine Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Homesick: Longing for Domestic Spaces in the Works of Julia Franck Alexandra Merley Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Judith Hermann’s “Summerhouse, Later”: Gender Ambiguity and Smooth versus Striated Spaces Necia Chronister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
III. Revisited Spaces: Repositionings and Points of Encounter
Marginalized Spaces, Marginalized Inhabitants Beth Muellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Elisabeth Langgässer’s Theology of Place: Germany after the Third Reich Elizabeth Weber Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Female Topographies: Depiction and Semanticization of Fictional Space in Monika Maron’s Silent Close No. 6 Caroline Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Chance Encounters: The Secrets of Irina Liebmann’s Quiet Center of Berlin (2001) Susanne Lenné Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
The View from the Parking Lot: Political Landscapes and Natural Environments in the Works of Brigitta Kronauer and Jenny Erpenbeck Maria Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269

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July 1, 2015

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9783110378283

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June 12, 2015

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9783110378207

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6

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271

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110378283

eBook ISBN: 9783110378283

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110378207

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Spatial turn; German Studies; women's writing

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Scholars interested in German Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies and Literary Studies.

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