McCarthy Mad Mädchen

Popfeminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-570-9
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature, film, and media. Author Maggie McCarthy investigates the subjectivity of individuals processing political discourse, revealing an approach to identity that affirms itself through difference while maintaining affinities among overlapping selves. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic, and racial lines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCarthy, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. German Feminism in the 2000s: Brains, Bodies, and Bridges

Chapter 2. Lost Objects, Monsters, and Melancholia in Zöe Jenny's The Pollen Room, Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax, and Elke Naters' Lies

Chapter 3. Dialogical and Borderline Selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011)

Chapter 4. Girls Gone Wild: Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermeier, and Feminist Fantasies of '68

Chapter 5. Counter-Cinema, Crossing Bridges, and Future Feminisms: Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007)

Chapter 6. Mutable Mädchen: on Screen and in the Streets

Bibliograhpy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

McCarthy, Margaret
Margaret McCarthy is Professor of German Studies at Davidson College, where she also teaches film and media studies. She has published articles on contemporary German literature, film, and feminism in journals such as Camera Obscura, German Quarterly, New German Critique, and Oxford German Studies. She has co-edited the Women in German Yearbook as well as Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective (2003). More recently she edited Pop Literature: A Companion (2015).