Schauspiele des Sehens
Die Figur der Flaneurin, Voyeurin und Stalkerin im U.S.-amerikanischen Essay
by Susann Neuenfeldt
Hardback (Published)
(February 2015)
ISBN: 9783825361846
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $45.00
On back order
This study addresses the question of how North American authors Ann Sophia Stephens, Gertrude Stein, Annie Dillard and the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo used the genre of the essay in order to take on figures of the observer traditionally not available to the female perspective, such as the classic male figure of the flaneur, the voyeur, the cultural-critical observer and the stalker. The study’s main questions leading up to its conclusions are: which cultural practices do the respective authors apply in order to show and re-design the correlation between the position of the female subject and the traditionally male observers, to create an alternative female gaze, or else to affirm hegemonic points of view (in the literary sense of the word) in a conservative way? Which observing bodies are given a view and in what kind of essayistic framework, and what must the authors do in order to achieve this?
English summary: This study addresses the question of how North American authors Ann Sophia Stephens, Gertrude Stein, Annie Dillard and the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo used the genre of the essay in order to take on figures of the observer traditionally not available to the female perspective, such as the classic male figure of the flaneur, the voyeur, the cultural-critical observer and the stalker. The study’s main questions leading up to its conclusions are: which cultural practices do the respective authors apply in order to show and re-design the correlation between the position of the female subject and the traditionally male observers, to create an alternative female gaze, or else to affirm hegemonic points of view (in the literary sense of the word) in a conservative way? Which observing bodies are given a view and in what kind of essayistic framework, and what must the authors do in order to achieve this? German description: Die Studie geht der Frage nach, wie sich die U.S.-amerikanischen Autorinnen Ann Sophia Stephens, Gertrude Stein, Annie Dillard und die mexikanische Malerin Frida Kahlo die essayistische Schreibpraxis zu Nutze gemacht haben, um sich Betrachterfiguren anzueignen, die traditionell nicht fur weibliche Subjektpositionen zuganglich waren, wie etwa die klassisch mannliche Figur des Flaneurs, des Voyeurs, des kulturkritischen Beobachters und des Stalkers. Die erkenntnisleitenden Fragestellungen der Arbeit lauten: Welche kulturellen Praktiken mobilisieren die jeweiligen Autorinnen, um das Verhaltnis zwischen weiblichen Subjektpositionen und traditionell mannlichen Betrachterfiguren in den Blick zu rucken, umzukodieren, alternative weibliche Beobachterfiguren zu entwerfen oder auch hegemoniale Blickpositionen auf konservative Art und Weise zu affirmieren? Welche Betrachterkorper durfen in welchen essayistischen Rahmungen einen Blick haben und was mussen die Autorinnen an Aufwand dafur leisten?
- By (author) Susann Neuenfeldt
Other Titles in this Series
Crossroads in American Studies
Transnational and Biocultural Encounters. Essays in Honor of Rudiger Kunow
Volume 269
The Native American Declaration of Independence
William Apess's Reflections of Ethnic Consciousness
Volume 156
The Culture of Corporeality
Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960
Volume 151
Walking in the Wilderness
The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting
Volume 134
Transnational Mediations
Negotiating Popular Culture between Europe and the United States
Volume 261
American Studies/Shifting Gears
A Publication of the DFG Research Network 'The Futures of (European) American Studies'
Volume 185
Migration – Miscegenation – Transculturation
Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century
Volume 114
Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography
Cinema, Automediality and Grammatology with 'Film Portrait' and 'Joyce at 34'
Volume 187
The Americanization of Human Rights
Iranian, African, and Chinese Lives in American Autobiography
Volume 290
Faith Matters
Religion, Ethnicity, and Survival in Louise Erdrich's and Toni Morrison's Fiction
Volume 149
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Volume 305
Similar Books
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Althochdeutsche Stabreimdichtungen
Hildebrandslied, Muspilli und kleinere Denkmaler. Von Grund auf neu ediert, mit Erschliessungshilfen versehen, ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Frank Schafer
