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What is the status of women's writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has been conceived. With an eye to the literary and feminist legacy of authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant literary voices, including Hatice Akyün, Sibylle Berg, Thea Dorn, Tanja Dückers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Rávic Strubel -- authors who, through their writing or their role in the media, engage with questions of what it means to be a woman writer in twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill, Lindsey Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Beret Norman, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Portland.
The appearance of the distinctive ‘Beaker package’ marks an important horizon in British prehistory, but was it associated with immigrants to Britain or with indigenous converts? Analysis of the skeletal remains of 264 individuals from the British Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age is revealing new information about the diet, migration and mobility of those buried with Beaker pottery and related material. Results indicate a considerable degree of mobility between childhood and death, but mostly within Britain rather than from Europe. Both migration and emulation appear to have had an important role in the adoption and spread of the Beaker package.
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
IN THIS ARTICLE I EXAMINE the place of religious beliefs, and the interrelation between religion and gender, in a selection of twenty-first-century German-language prose fiction written by women. In line with the widespread recognition of a “religious turn” or “(re)sacralization” that is transforming political and cultural discourse in the “post-secular society” in which we live, the role of religion in contemporary German-language literature is subject to increasing scrutiny. In German literary studies the depiction of Islam in Germanic culture and the history of German-Jewish identity currently receive much more explicit attention than the place of Christian faith. Julian Preece and Frank Finlay discuss this bias in their edited volume Religion and Identity in Germany Today. They speculate that the non-religious backgrounds of most “white” Germanlanguage authors and the academics who analyze their texts—who nonetheless belong to national traditions that have been strongly influenced by Christianity—mean that they have to rediscover a conceptual apparatus in order to address the Christian God. The same critics are more at ease when discussing Muslim and Jewish religious beliefs, which, arguably, do not have the same disconcerting relation to their own intellectual heritage. It is precisely this capacity of religious beliefs to unsettle and disconcert—their demand for a reckoning with or without God—that interests me in the literary texts here, and I follow this process of reckoning in relation to Jewish and Christian conceptions of God.
Nicolas Boyle has described how twentieth-century writers’ recurring engagement with the confrontation between religion and secularity is one of the means by which they are able to conceptualize some of the most profound changes in notions of personal and collective identity entailed by modern life. Boyle's assessment remains true for writers in the twenty-first century, and for the female novelists whose work I consider here, religious identity is a key aspect of characterization and frequently serves as a means of exploring other aspects of identity, including their gender, because of the ways in which experiences of religion intersect with and impinge upon other means of self-understanding.
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Edited by
Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland,Alexandra Merley Hill, Assistant Professorof German at the University of Portland
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the authors demonstrate that the ambiguous dating of the trilithons, the grand centrepiece of Stonehenge, was based on samples taken from the wrong context, and can now be settled at 2600-2400 cal BC. This means that the trilithons are contemporary with Durrington Walls, near neighbour and Britain's largest henge monument. These two monuments, different but complementary, now predate the earliest Beaker burials in Britain – including the famous Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen, but may already have been receiving Beaker pottery. All this contributes to a new vision of massive monumental development in a period of high European intellectual mobility….
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