Expressionism and Gender / Expressionismus und Geschlecht
Contributions by Christiane Schönfeld Contributions by Katharina Sykora Contributions by Christine Kanz Contributions by Richard Murphy Contributions by Ulrike Zitzlsperger Contributions by Andreas Kramer Contributions by Günter Rinke Edited by Frank Krause
Paperback (Published)
(June 2010)
ISBN: 9783899717174
6.22 x 9.49 inches
Price: $82.00
On back order
Gender-Kategorien im essentialistisch ausgerichteten Expressionismus.
English summary: A comprehensive overview of gender-historical trends in Expressionism is still a desideratum; the number and heterogeneity of such trends call for a diverse range of specialized studies. This volume makes an important contribution to cultural-historical research on the links between Expressionism and gender; it deals with literature (especially prose), film, plays by Ernst Toller, and paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The contributions explore topics such as fantasies of male birth, sexuality in contexts of money and traffic flows, aspects of maternal practice, crises of masculinities, gender symbolism, prostitute figures, and women as means for the increase of male social power. The findings suggest that future research should focus more strongly on three ways in which expressionists problematize gender positions: on symbolically meaningful transgressions of gender roles, on contradictory specifications of gender-coded identities, and on de-essentialized modes of sexual expression in the force fields of technology and social power. German and English text. German description: Eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme genderhistorisch bedeutsamer Tendenzen des Expressionismus steht nach wie vor aus; angesichts der epochalen Vielfalt dieser Tendenzen lasst sich das Bild der expressionistischen Moderne nur mit Hilfe einer Vielzahl kleinerer Schritte in unterschiedliche Richtungen aktualisieren. Der Band leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zu jener Bestandsaufnahme; neben der Literatur, insbesondere der Prosa, werden u.a. Strassenszenen von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und Filme der Weimarer Republik berucksichtigt. Die Beitrage behandeln maskuline Geburtsphantasien, Sexualitat in Kontexten des Strassen- und Geldverkehrs, Aspekte mutterlichen Handelns, krisenhafte Maskulinitaten, Geschlechtersymbolik, Prostituiertenmotive sowie Frauenfiguren, die als Mittel zur Steigerung mannlicher Macht fungieren. Die Befunde legen nahe, drei Varianten der Problematisierung von Geschlechterpositionen im Expressionismus kunftig starker zu berucksichtigen: die symbolisch bedeutsame Uberschreitung von Spielraumen der Geschlechter, die widerspruchliche Codierung geschlechtermarkierten Sinns sowie die Darstellung von Substanzverlusten sexueller Beziehungen im Wirkungsfeld instrumentellen Handelns.
- Contributions by Christiane Schönfeld
- Contributions by Katharina Sykora
- Contributions by Christine Kanz
- Contributions by Richard Murphy
- Contributions by Ulrike Zitzlsperger
- Contributions by Andreas Kramer
- Contributions by Günter Rinke
- Edited by Frank Krause
Similar Books
As Messianism Turns to Heresy
The Regenstein Chair Lectures On Lurianic Kabbalah and Shabbatai Tzevi at Hebrew Union College - Cincinnati
Beyond Sovereign Courts
Agents and Practices in Early Modern Spanish and Habsburg Diplomacy
Volume 3
Food Security under Armed Conflict
Global Knowledge Landscape and Public Attention to Social, Economic, and Humanitarian Dimensions
Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 2
Volume 18
Myths and Tales of the Inughuit
Erik Holtved's Polar Eskimo Texts Revised and Re-translated into Danish and English
Volume 475, 12
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings
European Traditions
The Phantom Hitchhiker
Italian Literature, Japanese Lore, and the Transnational Afterlives of a Global Ghost Story
