Women writers and national identity : Bachmann, Duden, Özdamar / Stephanie Bird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bird, Stephanie, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in German.

Cambridge studies in German

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Bachmann, Ingeborg.

Duden, Anne, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Duden, Anne.

Özdamar, Emine Sevgi, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.

Özdamar, Emine Sevgi.

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

German literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Women Writers & National Identity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Women Writers and National Identity, Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers. Bird argues for the importance of an understanding of ambiguity, tension and contradiction in the fictional narratives of Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Özdamar. She aims to demonstrate how ambiguity is itself central to the development of an understanding of identity and that literary texts are uniquely able to point to the ethical importance of ambiguity through their stylistic complexity. Bird gives close readings of the three writers and draws on feminist theory and psychoanalysis to elucidate the complex nature of individual identity. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists.

Contents:

I: Ingeborg Bachmann: the todesarten prose

Franza and the righteous servant

On sharks and shame

Malina: experience and feminism

II: Anne Duden: the suffering body

The short stories. Thoughts on the body and ethics

Desire and complicity in Das Judasschaf

III: Emine Özdamar: performance and metaphor

Tradition out of context

Metaphor's creative spark

das war es.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13717-9

1-280-16263-5

0-511-12132-6

0-511-06217-6

0-511-20306-3

0-511-33070-7

0-511-48573-5

0-511-07063-2

OCLC:

57309016