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Disability in German literature, film, and theater / edited by Eleoma Joshua and Michael Schillmeier.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh German yearbook ; v. 4.
- Edinburgh German yearbook ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Motion pictures--Germany--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Theater--Germany.
- Theater.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- People with disabilities in motion pictures.
- People with disabilities and the performing arts--Germany.
- People with disabilities and the performing arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume focuses on disability in German literature, film and theatre. It examines cultural representations of disability that raise questions about 'the humane gaze' and posits disability as historically central to discussions of humanity, modernity, and social and moral behaviour in German-language literature, film and theatre.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Literarische Anthropologie und Groteske. Johann Karl Wezels Tobias Knaut und die Anfänge einer literarischen Darstellung von „Behinderung“ um 1800
- Misreading the Body: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober
- Exzentrische Empfindung. Raoul Hausmann und die Prothetik der Zwischenkriegszeit
- Bridging the Silence: Towards a Literary Memory of Nazi Euthanasia
- “Die gräßliche Blume des Grinds”: Disfigurement, Disablement, and Discrimination in Soma Morgenstern’s Jewish Trilogy Funken im Abgrund
- Schöne blinde Geigerinnen und mürrische blinde Bauern
- „Wenn Sie bereit sind, in mir einen Menschen zu sehen“.1 Behinderung und die Macht des Blickes in Günter Grass’ Die Blechtrommel
- „Der hinkende Vogel verfremdet den Flug“ — Heiner Müllers „Philoktet“ im Kontext der Disability Studies
- From Impairment to Empowerment: A Re-Assessment of Libuše Moníková’s Representation of Disability in Pavane für eine verstorbene Infantin
- Thalidomide as Spectacle and Capital
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 12, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 1-282-78847-7
- 9786612788475
- 1-57113-720-3
- OCLC:
- 923578231
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