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Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing
female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and
thematic terms in which German women's literature has been
conceived. What is the status of women's writing in German today,
in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary
conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory,
including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel
Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of
conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal,
aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has
been conceived. With aneye to the literary and feminist legacy of
authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors
treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant
literary voices, including Hatice Akyun, Sibylle Berg,Thea Dorn,
Tanja Duckers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina
Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Ravic Strubel --
authors who, through their writing or their roles in the media,
engage with questionsof what it means to be a woman writer in
twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia
Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill,
Lindsay Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne
Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester
Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University
of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Associate Professor of German
at the University of Portland.
This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and
activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the
context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and
interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist. Responding to
the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement, this volume
investigates not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual
violence but also the transhistorical and transnational failure to
hold perpetrators accountable. From a range of disciplines, the
collected essays engage current cultural and political discourses
about systemic sexism, feminist theory and practice, and
gender-based discrimination from an academic and activist
perspective. The focus on national cultures of German-speaking
Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the present captures the
persistence of normalized and institutionalized sexism, reframed
through the lens of a contemporary political and social movement.
German #MeToo argues that sexual violence is not a universal human
constant. Rather, it is nurtured and sustained by the social,
political, cultural, legal, and economic fabric of specific
societies. The authors sustain and vary their exploration of
#MeToo-related issues through considerations of rape, prostitution,
sexual murder, the politics of consent, and victim-blaming as
enacted in literary works by canonical and marginalized authors,
the visual arts, the graphic novel, film, television, and theater.
The analysis of rape myths - of discourses and practices in German
history and culture that subtend and indemnify sexual violence - is
a central subject of this edited volume. Throughout, German #MeToo
challenges narratives of sex-based discrimination while emphasizing
the strategies of resistance and the importance of telling one's
own story.
Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing
female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and
thematic terms in which German women's literature has been
conceived. What is the status of women's writing in German today,
in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary
conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory,
including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel
Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of
conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal,
aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has
been conceived. With aneye to the literary and feminist legacy of
authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors
treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant
literary voices, including Hatice Akyun, Sibylle Berg,Thea Dorn,
Tanja Duckers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina
Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Ravic Strubel --
authors who, through their writing or their roles in the media,
engage with questionsof what it means to be a woman writer in
twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia
Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill,
Lindsay Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne
Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester
Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University
of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Associate Professor of German
at the University of Portland.
Investigates why the question of women's complicity in National
Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination,
examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the
role of women in the Third Reich In recent years, historians have
revealed the many ways in which German women supported National
Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well
as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however,
thewomen of the period are still predominantly depicted as the
victims of a violent twentieth century whose atrocities were
committed by men. They are frequently imagined as post hoc
redeemers of the nation, as the "rubble women" whospiritually and
literally rebuilt Germany. This book investigates why the question
of women's complicity in the Third Reich has struggled to capture
the historical imagination in the same way. It explores how female
authorsfrom across the political and generational spectrum
(Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elisabeth Plessen, Gisela Elsner,
Tanja Duckers, Jenny Erpenbeck) conceptualize the role of women in
the Third Reich. As well as offering innovative re-readings of
celebrated works, this book provides instructive interpretations of
lesser-known texts that nonetheless enrich our understanding of
German memory culture. Katherine Stone is Assistant Professor in
German Studies at the University of Warwick.
Imagine moonlight and roses. And London and Paris. And the
intoxicating magic of a Louisiana bayou. Then journey with master
storyteller Katherine Stone on this breathtaking voyage of danger,
courage, and love.
They met beside the brilliant blue bayou. She was an innocent girl,
and he was a reckless and angry boy. Claire Chamberlain believed in
dreams, and Cole Taylor believed in nothing at all. Cole had no
reason to believe--until her. They pledged their love beneath the
silver winter moon. But the hopes of Cole and Claire were destined
to be drowned in blood.
Now, twelve years later, Cole has returned to Harlanville. He has
found fame as a singer of love songs. And Claire? Her life has
changed, irrevocably, yet she has found a private peace--such a
fragile one that Cole's very presence shatters her precarious
serenity. And now Cole is asking her to do the impossible, to come
away with him, to London. Claire knows he will break her heart
again. But she will be with him, she has to be, for as long as she
can bear the pain.
Claire's is not the only endangered heart in London. A murderer has
sent Lady Sarah Pembroke an engraved Valentine invitation--to her
own death. And is Claire's girlhood friend afraid of the
knife-wielding monster? Hardly. The Global News's star
correspondent, the woman who feels oddly sane amid the madness of
war, has her own private demons, memories far more fearsome than a
murderer who chooses the most romantic day of the year to inflict
his lethal terror.
But neither Sarah's past nor the killer stalking her are as
terrifying as Jack Dalton, the FBI consultant determined to save
Sarah's life. Jack needs Sarah's help in his exhaustive, careful
search for clues. But remarkably, and infuriatingly, Sarah resists.
Sarah will not tell Jack the intimate information he needs to know.
She cannot. And yet it is as if he already knows her anguished
secrets, cares for her more than he should, and wants more from
Lady Sarah Pembroke than she can ever give.
Imagine Love is an enthralling read, a beautifully crafted tapestry
of suspense and love, of surprises you won't imagine, and of men
and women you will never forget.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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