Women in German Expressionism : gender, sexuality, activism / Anke Finger and Julie Shoults, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finger, Anke.

Contributor:

Finger, Anke, Editor.

Shoults, Julie, Editor.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity in literature.

German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

German literature.

Expressionism in literature.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

This collection, for the first time, explores women's self-conceptions and representations of women's and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways, engaging solidly established theoretical and sociohistorical approaches that enhance and update our understanding of the material under investigation. It moves beyond the masculine, "New Man," viewpoint so firmly associated with German Expressionism and examines alternative, critical, and divergent interpretations of the changing world at the time. This collection seeks to broaden the theorization, scholarship, and reception of German Expressionism by-much belatedly-including works by women, and by shifting or redefining firmly established concepts and topics carrying only the imprint of male authors and artists to this day.

Contents:

Introduction : flipping the prostitute : German Expressionism reexamined after one hundred years / Anke Finger and Julie Shoults

Intimate strangers : women in German Expressionism / Barbara D. Wright

Elsa Asenijeff and German Expressionism / Curtis Swope

Between bohemian brotherhood and the new man : on gender and writing in F. Gräfin zu Reventlow's Herrn Dames Aufzeichnungen (1913) / Carola Daffner

"Wenn man eine Frau ist" : female protagonists as social revolutionaries / Corinne Painter

On their own : reconsidering Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Münter / Katy Klaasmeyer

Somaesthetics, gender, and the body as media in Claire Goll's racialized Expressionism / Anke Finger

Gender, sexuality, and the makeup of feminine beauty : Viennese Expressionist ceramics and the Wiselthier Frauenkopf / Megan Brandow-Faller

The ecstasies of Mela Hartwig-Spira : between laughter and terror / Aleksandra Kudryashova

Resituating Lu Märten's manifesto of matriarchal socialism in Expressionist debates / Douglas Brent McBride

Emmy Hennings : the human being as woman / Nicole Shea

Writing the inner strife : Emmy Hennings's Das Brandmal : Ein Tagebuch (1920) / Mirjam Berg

"The time is coming" : women writers in the Expressionist journal Die Aktion (1911-1932) / Catherine Smale

Expressionism and "female insanity" : the lives and works of Else Blankenhorn (1873-1920) / Daniela Müller

Empathy for outsiders in women's Expressionist literature / Julie Shoults

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780472903672

0472903675