Branded

A Diary
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-55481-532-6
Verlag: Broadview Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

When Branded: A Diary was published in Berlin in 1920, Emmy Hennings was called the most important woman writer of her day. Her autobiographical novel offers a sharp critique of patriarchy and the social injustices of the last decade of the German Empire, infused with a mysticism that celebrates sexual love as a spiritual gift and assigns saintly status to beggars and sex workers. Drawing on the experimentation of Dadaists and Expressionists and inspired by modern technologies such as the camera and gramophone, Hennings radically shatters novelistic conventions. Over a century after the novel’s publication, this translation finally introduces an important modernist voice to English-language readers, accompanied by an illuminating selection of contextual materials and an informative introduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hennings, Emmy

Rout, Katharina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rout, Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Branded: A DiaryIn Context - Literary Contexts - from Margarete Böhme, The Diary of a Lost One (1905)
- Emmy Hennings’s Work in Vaudeville: The Divining Spider (1915)
- from Emmy Hennings, Prison (1919)
- from Siegmund Bing, review of Das Brandmal [Branded], Frankfurter Zeitung (7 May 1921)

- Religious Contexts - from Saint Augustine, Confessions
- from Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (1418)

- Social Contexts - from Tony Kellen, The Plight of our Actresses: A Study of the Economic Situation and Moral Standing of Stage Artists, as well as a Warning and Guidance for Young Ladies who wish to Dedicate themselves to the Stage (1902)
- from Camillo Karl Schneider, The Prostitute and Society: A Socio-Ethical Study (1908)

- Images

Über Autor(innen)

Katharina Rout was for many years a professor of English at Vancouver Island University, where she specialized in Literature in Translation and Transnational Literature. She has translated several other works from the German into English, including The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag (Milkweed Editions, 2007).