Women and death 3
Subtitle: women's representations of death in German culture since 1500
By: edited by Clare Bielby and Anna Richards.
Contributors: Bielby, Clare, 1981-; Richards, Anna, 1962-
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781571134394
Subjects: German literature -- History and criticism; German literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Germany; Women in literature; Women and death; Death in literature
Other titles: Women and death three
Description: 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 exercise fascination 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. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.