Women and death 3: women's representations of death in German culture since 1500
Bielby, C. and Richards, Anna, eds. (2010) Women and death 3: women's representations of death in German culture since 1500. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture 57. Rochester: Camden House. ISBN 9781571134394.
Abstract
Book synopsis: Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are traditionally constructed as an unknowable "other." The first two Women and Death volumes investigate ideas about death and the feminine as represented in German culture since 1500, focusing, respectively, on the representation of women as victims and killers and the idea of the woman warrior, and confirming that women who kill or die violent or untimely deaths exercisefascination even as they pose a threat. The traditions of representation traced in the first two volumes, however, are largely patriarchal. What happens when it is women who produce the representations? Do they debunk or reject the dominant discourses of sexual fascination around women and death? Do they replace them with more sober or "realistic" representations, with new forms, modes, and language? Or do women writers and artists, inescapably bound up in patriarchal tradition, reproduce its paradigms? This third volume in the series investigates these questions in ten essays written by an international group of expert scholars. It will be of interest to scholars and students of German literature and culture, gender studies, and film studies.
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| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Anna Richards |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2022 13:20 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:54 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/49818 |
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