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Why Stay? Shifting Perspectives on 'Inner Emigration' and Resistance in the Works of Elfriede Brüning
No full textThis chapter examines the shifting perspectives on ‘inner emigration’ and resistance to fascism in the works of the East German writer, Elfriede Brüning. Focusing on two fictional texts, ...damit du weiterlebst (1949) and Septemberreise (1974) and one explicitly autobiographical work, Und außerdem war es mein Leben (1994), the chapter analyses Brün¬ing’s present¬ation of different forms of opposition to Nazism. Drawing on state¬ments by the author external to the primary texts, the position of these three works in Brüning’s autobiographical project is considered. In particular, the chapter examines tensions in Brüning’s presentation of female re¬sistance to fascism across the three works and the conflict between nar¬rative identities based on political commitment to antifascism and those based on a gendered commitment to familial ties. It is argued that a comparison of autobiography and self-reflexive fiction can elucidate tensions in the author’s self-understanding by highlighting the ways in which she explores different aspects of her identity and experience across different narrative personae
Cli-Fi. A Companion [Reseña de libro]
No full textReseña del libro: Goodbody, Axel, and Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.), Cli-Fi. A Companion (Oxford: Peter Lang,
2019), 236 pp
Javier Bardem: Body and Space
No full textNow an international star, Spanish actor Javier Bardem was discovered by director Bigas Luna in the early 1990s with a series of roles that framed his body as the perfect representation of the stereotypical Iberian macho. In Jamón, jamón (1992) Bardem’s character was defined by his visibly muscular body and associated with animal and ‘Spanish’ imagery from the beginning. He was portrayed as independent and, like an animal, in control of his surrounding (outdoors) space. In contrast, his male antagonist was associated with materialist imagery, often non-Spanish, globalising symbols of capitalism and represented within the (over)protective environment of parental spaces (the home, the family business). More recently, in his first Hollywood role as Cuban gay writer Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (Schnabel, 2000), Bardem’s body was redefined as both vulnerable (confined to claustrophobic prison cells, and later suffering from AIDS) and Latino. This paper discusses the use of Bardem’s malleable body as a locus where, domineering and vulnerable, European and Hispanic, male identities meet
The self in transition: East German autobiographical writing before and after unification
No full textTaking as its starting point the work of Professor Dennis Tate, this volume brings together essays which explore varieties of East German autobiographical writing before, during and after German unification. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self through literature in response to historical change, analysing how authors have negotiated social transition in the East German context. Many of the contributions also discuss how authors have sought to understand lives which have spanned the National Socialist, socialist and post-unification periods. This volume will be particularly valuable to students and researchers working on contemporary Germany and its culture, as well as to those with an interest in autobiographical writing
J.G. Ballard's 'The Drowned World' (1962): Psycho-Geographical Cli-Fi
Full text linkBallard's 'The Drowned World' is often considered to be a form of proto-Climate Fiction. This introduction to the work, taken from Axel Goodbody's and Adeline Johns-Putra's excellent Cli-Fi reader from Peter Lang, explores how Ballard's work both predates but encodes key components of what we now recognise as Climate fiction
Cli-Fi: A Companion
No full textClimate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement. Cli-fi novels and films are typically set in the future, telling of disaster and its effect on humans, or they depict the present, beset by dilemmas, conflicts or conspiracies, and pointing to grave consequences. At their heart are ethical and political questions: will humankind rise to the challenge of acting collectively, in the interest of the future? What sacrifices will be necessary, and is a green dictatorship our only hope for survival as a species? Each chapter in this volume offers a way of reading a particular literary text or film, drawing attention to themes, formal features, reception, contribution to public debate, and issues for class discussion. Popular novels and films (Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capitol trilogy, Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, Ian McEwan’s Solar, and The Day after Tomorrow) are examined alongside lesser known writing (for instance J. G. Ballard’s «proto-climate change» novel The Drowned World and Antti Tuomainen’s Finnish thriller, The Healer), and films not generally thought of as being about climate change (Frozen and Take Shelter). The book, which includes an introduction tracing the emergence and influence of cli-fi, is directed towards general readers and film enthusiasts as well as teachers and students. Written in an accessible style, it fills the gap between academic studies and online blogs, offering a comprehensive look at this timely new genre.</p
Cli-Fi: A Companion
No full textClimate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement. Cli-fi novels and films are typically set in the future, telling of disaster and its effect on humans, or they depict the present, beset by dilemmas, conflicts or conspiracies, and pointing to grave consequences. At their heart are ethical and political questions: will humankind rise to the challenge of acting collectively, in the interest of the future? What sacrifices will be necessary, and is a green dictatorship our only hope for survival as a species?
Each chapter in this volume offers a way of reading a particular literary text or film, drawing attention to themes, formal features, reception, contribution to public debate, and issues for class discussion. Popular novels and films (Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capitol trilogy, Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, Ian McEwan’s Solar, and The Day after Tomorrow) are examined alongside lesser known writing (for instance J. G. Ballard’s «proto-climate change» novel The Drowned World and Antti Tuomainen’s Finnish thriller, The Healer), and films not generally thought of as being about climate change (Frozen and Take Shelter).
The book, which includes an introduction tracing the emergence and influence of cli-fi, is directed towards general readers and film enthusiasts as well as teachers and students. Written in an accessible style, it fills the gap between academic studies and online blogs, offering a comprehensive look at this timely new genre.</p
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