Exile through a Gendered Lens

Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34254-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zinn, G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; G.Zinn M.T.Stanley Exile in Letters: Bertolt Brecht's Collaborators Elisabeth Hauptmann and Margarete Steffin; P.Hanssen A Lost Voice Remembered: María Teresa León's Triumph; M.Thrond The House of Memory: Exile in Alicia Dujovne Ortiz's El árbol de la gitana; K.López Writing from the Margins, Writing in the Margins: Christa Wolf's Medea; A.Eubanks Liberating Mythography: The Intertextual Discourse between Golden Age Masters' Artistic Rendering of Mythological Banishment and Iciar Bollaín's Filmic Portrayal of Domestic Violence as Exile in Te doy mis ojos; M.T.Stanley Souls in Transit: Exilic Journeys in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007); G.Zinn Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas in European 'Immigration Cinema'; I.Ballesteros Conclusion; G.Zinn M.T.Stanley

Über Autor(innen)

GESA ZINNAssociate Professor of German Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.
MAUREEN TOBIN STANLEYAssociate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.