Exile through a Gendered Lens [electronic resource] : Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema /
Zinn, G.author.
Zinn, Gesa.
Tobin Stanley, Maureen.
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.
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Cover; Exile through a Gendered Lens: Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema; Contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Chapter Summaries; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 1: Exile in Letters: Bertolt Brecht's Collaborators Elisabeth Hauptmann and Margarete Steffin; Overview; Elisabeth Hauptmann; Margarete Steffin; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2: A Lost Voice Remembered: María Teresa León's Triumph; Overview; Early Voices; Personal and Political Development; Life in Harmony with Alberti; Exile; Dispelling Myths, Revising History
The Redemptive Voice from Exile"Triumph of a Poet"; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3: An Argentine in Paris: The House of Memory: Exile in Alicia Dujovne Ortiz's El árbol de la gitana; Overview; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Writing from the Margins, Writing in the Margins: Christa Wolf 's Medea; Overview; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Liberating Mythography: The Intertextual Discourse between Mythological Banishment and Domestic Violence as Exile in Take My Eyes (Te doy mis ojos); Overview; Violence; Violence as Exile; Process of Liberation: Recognition, Evolution, and Liberation
Recognition: Ecclesiastical Patriarchy and the MotherEvolution: Secular Art; Liberation: Seeing Oneself; Liberation; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Souls in Transit: Exilic Journeys in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007); Overview; The Edge of Heaven: Summary; Life and Death as Nodal Points of Exilic Journeys; The Exilic Experience: Souls in Transit; Nejat; Intertextuality; Ayten (Gül); Nejat and Ayten/Gül: Two Opposites and Opposing Forces; The Broken Circle; Charlotte; Susanne, a Stranger in Her Home; Susanne's Journey; Ali; Female Souls Transitioning and Arriving; Notes; Works Cited
Chapter 7: Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas in European "Immigration Cinema"Overview; Home, Family Reunion, and the Redefinition of Diasporic Identities; Domestic Service, Female Networks of Sociality, and Solidarity; Immigrant Associations and Female Networking; Notes; Works Cited; Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Literature.
Anthropology.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Ethnology.
Europe-History.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Anthropology.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
European History.