Writing against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-Speaking Context

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Barbara KOSTA and Helga KRAFT: Introduction: Writing against Boundaries MONIKA SCHAUSTEN: "Only Germany raises real men for the world": Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, Nation, and the Third Reich Martha KAARSBERG WALLACH: Exile and Nation, Body and Gender in the Works of Talvj (1797-1870) Vivian LISKA: The "New Woman" as a Foreigner: Individual and National Identity in Annette Kolb's novel Das Exemplar Claudia BREGER: Narratives of Nomadism or Copying German Culture Susanne BAACKMANN: Symptomatic Bodies: Fascism, Gender and Hans Bellmer's Dolls Barbara KOSTA: Murderous Boundaries: Nation, Memory and Austria's Fascist Past in Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl Elizabeth LOENTZ: A Turkish-German Odyssey: Aras Oren's Eine verspatete Abrechnung oder Der Aufstieg der Gundogdus Helga W. KRAFT: Staging Xenophobia in the 1990s: The Political Plays of Bettina Fless, Anna Langhoff, and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar Inge STEPHAN: The Bad Mothers: Medea-Myths and National Discourse in Texts from Elisabeth Langgasser and Christa Wolf Helga W. KRAFT: Searching for a Motherland: Women Breaking Their Generational Chains in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Sommerstuck, and Medea. Stimmen Elke LIEBS: The Body as Exile in the Works of Irene Dische Andrea REIMANN: New German Cinema's Boundaries Opened: Postmodern Authorship and Nationality in Monika Treut's Films of the 1980s Bibliography and Filmography Contributors to this Volume Index