Embodied Realities

Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Art
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-80374-875-7
Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 270 g

Reihe: Embodied Realities

In the last decade, critical Germanophone cultural productions have led a feminist and/or queer resistance against the rise of conservative politics. Embodied Realities offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film, performing arts, and the history of ideas. It features a unique collaboration among activists, authors, and scholars and proposes a pluridisciplinary, multimodal, and transnational approach to "embodiment" and "reality." In exploring the intertwining of activism and creation, contributors interrogate "embodiment" as a practice that fights commodification and discrimination and "reality" as the illusory state of normativity as well as the hopeful becoming of alternatives that reconfigure societies. The testimonies included in the volume allow for a deeper understanding of life experiences that have, in turn, inspired cultural productions. Academic essays vary from case studies to studies of broader corpora, highlighting positionality, identity, and sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roussel, Flora

Weitere Mitwirkende

Finch, Helen

Stone, Katherine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures - Foreword, Ervin Malakaj - Acknowledgements, Flora Roussel - Introduction: Looking Further, Constantly Growing, Flora Roussel - 1. The One and the Other: Continuing the Work of Audre Lorde in Germany, Katharina Oguntoye - 2. Writing (through) Trauma in Jasmina Kuhnke’s : Voyeuristic Entertainment or a Path to Collective Healing?, Kathrin Spiller - 3. An “Ordinary Grotesque”: Ambiguous Queer Feminist Body Politics in Simone Meier’s , Flora Roussel - 4. From Montreal to Berlin: Carrying on the Work of Audre Lorde, Carolyn Gammon - 5. The Micropolitics of Contemporary Queer Feminist Performances in Germanophone Countries, Priscilla Wind - 6. Queer Precarious Lives: Negotiating Diversity in the German Public Broadcasting Web Series , Charlotte Kaiser - 7. How I Became a Feminist Writer (Albeit a One), Melanie Raabe - 8. Feminine Genius on Screen: On Margarethe von Trotta’s Biopics, Francis Tremblay - Notes on Contributors - Index

Über Autor(innen)

Flora Roussel is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Montreal. Her research interests include feminist, queer, and intersectional considerations of bodies, relationalities, and affects as well as exophony and its potential to transform literary studies.