Feminist Anger in German-Language Cultural Production

Responses to Racism, Misogyny, and Other Injustice
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64014-238-1
Verlag: Camden House

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in German Studies

Essays by feminist scholars of German Studies looking at how women-particularly women of color-have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship.

In Germany and in Western culture more broadly, women experience anger in response to misogyny, racism, and other injustice, but open expression of that anger is often considered unwomanly. Yet a rich tradition of feminist thinkers of color-including Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper, Amia Srinivasan, and Sara Ahmed-understands anger as energizing and imperative for structural change. How might we cultivate an anger that is affirming, inclusive, legitimate, creative, animating, and most of all, feminist?

This volume of essays by feminist scholars of German Studies-writing in dialogue with such thinkers while acknowledging their own largely white, privileged positionalities-looks at how women have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship. The eleven contributions approach the topic of female anger intersectionally and transnationally. They examine angry women in the contexts of politics, activism, philosophy, economics, race, nationality, sexuality, illness, and humour. Covering a wide array of genres and discussing works from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, they explore creators including writers, filmmakers, comedian/activists, musicians, and journalists. They investigate the tensions between the emotion of anger and the practice of being an angry woman, global responses to anger, and artistic representations of angry women in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gruber, Julia K.

Range, Regina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bauer, Esther K.

Cormican, Muriel

Daffner, Carola

Gross, Ruth V

Gruber, Julia K.

Hill, Amy Lynne

Hutter, Verena

Landry, Olivia

Polster, Heike

Porter, Cynthia D

Stehle, Maria

William, Jennifer Marston

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Julia K. Gruber and Regina Range

1: Looking back in Anger: Ilse Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte
Heike Polster
2:The Pathologizing of Female Anger in Bess Brenck-Kalischer's Die Knäbin (The Boygirl, 1922)
Carola Daffner
3: Dürrenmatt's Old Lady: A Study in Anger
Ruth V. Gross
4: Cum ira et studio: Beate Klarsfeld's Performative Anger
Verena Hutter
5:In Cold Blood: Female Anger in Elke Schmitter's Novel Frau Sartoris
Esther K. Bauer
6:Germany's Ghosts: Female Embodiment and Emergent Anger in Petzold's Barbara and Phoenix
Muriel Cormican
7:Mad Affinities: White Women and Neoliberalism in Eine flexible Frau (2011), Toni Erdmann (2016), and Love & Anarchy (Netflix, 2020)
Maria Stehle
8: "Was rettet euch noch?!" Individual and Collective Rage in Elfriede Jelinek's Wut
Jennifer Marston William
9: Whose Anger? Sibylle Berg's Theater for the Contemporary Mood
Olivia Landry
10: Fuming with Laughter: Anger and Humor as Erotic Powers in Stefanie Sargnagel and Hysteria, Akademische Burschenschaft zu Wien
Julia K. Gruber
11: SXTN's Music and Sahin's Female Sex Speech: Reclaiming "Fotze," Reinvesting Race
Amy Lynne Hill & Cynthia Porter

Contributors and their Anger Statements
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Landry, Olivia
OLIVIA LANDRY is Associate Professor of German in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Range, Regina
REGINA RANGE received her PhD from the University of Iowa. She is Director of Pitzer Programs at Pitzer College, CA, where she also teaches.

Gruber, Julia K.
JULIA K. GRUBER holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She was Associate Professor of German at Tennessee Tech University.

Gross, Ruth V
Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Arlington

William, Jennifer Marston
JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).

Gruber, Julia K.
JULIA K. GRUBER holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She was Associate Professor of German at Tennessee Tech University.

Stehle, Maria
MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Cormican, Muriel
MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University.