Mad mädchen : feminism and generational conflict in recent German literature and film / Margaret McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Margaret, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Women in literature.

German literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--Germany.

Feminism and literature.

Motion pictures.

History.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Germany.

Conflict of generations in literature.

Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.

Women in motion pictures.

Feminism and motion pictures--Germany.

Motion pictures--Germany--History--21st century.

Conflict of generations in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.

Summary:

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature, film, and media. Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes political discourse to define itself through both differences and affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic, and racial lines. Book jacket.

Contents:

German feminism in the 2000s : brains, bodies, and bridges

Lost objects, monsters, and melancholia in Zöe Jenny's The Pollen Room (1999), Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax (1999), and Elke Naters's Lies (1999)

Dialogical and borderline selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011)

Girls gone wild : Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermaier, and feminist fantasies of '68

Counter-cinema, crossing bridges, and future feminisms : Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007)

Mutable Mädchen : on screen and in the streets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: McCarthy, Margaret, 1963- author. Mad mädchen

ISBN:

9781785335693

1785335693

OCLC:

987909531