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Switzerland 1652: an eleven-year old girl, a strong-willed child
with rich imagination, who grows up without parents in a remote
valley, claims that she can create birds. The girl is arrested,
accused of witchcraft, put to a long and painful trial in Lucerne
and finally executed. She was punished for assuming creative power
which was God's alone. It was with good reasons that the
authorities had chosen the parentless child for an exemplary trial:
she was the weakest member of a community of rebelling peasant
farmers, whom they wanted to bring to reason. Seven years later a
similar case, this time in Upper Swabia, one of the German
territories: A boy of nine years and his eleven-year old sister are
suspected and condemned for alleged sexual relations with the
devil. Because they were found to be too young to be executed, they
were kept for four long years in the monastery of Buchau, until the
verdict could be executed. Translated from the original work of
Swiss writer Eveline Hasler, The Child Witches of Lucerne and
Buchau, provides a moving memorial for these children convicted and
executed for witchcraft.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her
body."" Almost a century after Margaret Sanger wrote these words,
women's reproductive rights are still hotly debated in the press
and among policymakers, while film, television and other media
address issues like birth control and abortion to global audiences.
This collection of new essays brings fresh perspective to the study
of family planning, contraception and abortion with a focus on
their representation in popular media. Topics include dramas of
adoption and abortion, telling the story of the pill, Sanger's
depiction in entertainment media, and a controversy about
demographic developments stirred by Carl Djerassi, also known as
""the father of the pill.
Der Band enthalt die Beitrage von vier Sektionen des Warschauer
IVG-Kongresses. Die Beitrage der Sektion Erzahlte Geschichte -
Erinnerte Literatur (betreut und bearbeitet von Ulrike Gleixner,
Marianne Henn, Gabriele Kamper, Waltraud Maierhofer)
rekonstruieren, wie sich Erinnerung in verschiedenen Epochen (von
der Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart) und Textsorten (Memoiren,
Biographien, Erzahlungen, Romanen) unterschiedlich literarisch
gestaltet. Besonders werden Methoden der Fiktionalisierung des
Erlebten und Mechanismen der Bildung von literarisch vermitteltem
individuellem und kollektivem Gedachtnis hervorgehoben. Die
Beitrage der Sektion Schreiben im Holocaust (betreut und bearbeitet
von Joerg Riecke) befassen sich mit dem noch immer schwierigen
Thema der Darstellung des Holocaust, d.h. mit Arbeiten (vor allem
deutsch-judischer) Autoren, die versuchen, das Unsagbare des
Traumas und des Todes zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Die Studien geben
einen klaren Umriss des Spannungsfeldes zwischen
UEberlebensstrategien (Bewaltigung des Unfassbaren) und Widerstand
gegenuber der Gefahr einer AEsthetisierung des Grausamen. Die
Beitrage der Sektion Geschlecht, Generation und Nation (betreut und
bearbeitet von Monika Shafi) untersuchen Schreibweisen von
AutorInnen, die Geschlechterbeziehungen aus einer Perspektive
gestalten, die sich programmatisch als postnational
(transkulturell) auffassen lasst, vor allem in Hinblick auf die
politische Qualitat von ausgewahlten mannlich und weiblich
kodierten Verweis- und Identifikationsmustern. Die Beitrage der
Sektion Bilaterale Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der
Globalisierung (betreut und bearbeitet von Xiaohu Feng) setzen sich
mit verschiedenen Aspekten, Problemen und Konzepten der so
genannten "interkulturellen Linguistik" nach dem cultural turn
auseinander. Sie gehen auf eine Reihe von linguistischen,
kulturlinguistischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen
(transkulturelle Werte, Identitatsbildung, Entwicklung von
interkultureller Kompetenz, Kulturtransfer) ein, die in der Zeit
der Globalisierung immer starker in den Vordergrund rucken.
Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750-2000 is organized by historic
periods and includes carefully chosen readings, with notes and
vocabulary, beginning with Goethe and ending with modern authors
such as Gunther Grass. Also included are numerous exercises and
thought provoking questions for each chapter and support materials
which emphasize the cultural and historical background of each
historic period.
In tandem with Gudrun Clay's 1000 Jahre deustche Literature,
these two volumes provide a modern approach to German literature in
its cultural, historical and linguistic context.
Although Prussia's beloved Queen Luise and the Swiss-born
aristocrat and writer Germaine de Stael were Napoleon Bonaparte's
best-known female opponents, women's discontent with Napoleon and
the Napoleonic wars was more widespread - and vocal - than once
assumed. "Women Against Napoleon" expands our awareness of the
range of women's responses to the despot by presenting an
international spectrum of female opposition, including contemporary
letters, diaries, and published writings, as well as historical
fiction of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing analyses of these
materials, this volume forges new links between literary,
historical, and gender scholarship.
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