Women in German Yearbook articles from January 1 2001

Women in German Yearbook archives from January 1 2001

Preface.
January 1, 2001... The dedication of this year's Women in German Yearbook to the memory of Susanne Zantop is meant not only to honor a dear friend, cherished collaborator, and splendid scholar, but also to acknowledge her actual involvement in many of the...

Kolonie and Heimat: race, gender, and postcolonial amnesia in Veit Harlan's Opfergang (1944).
January 1, 2001... After completion of her ground-breaking study Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany (1997), Susanne Zantop had begun to explore the legacy of colonial thinking in the shaping of German cultural identity,...

Representing blackness: instrumentalizing race and gender in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun.
January 1, 2001... The Marriage of Maria Braun uses race and gender to highlight certain aspects of West German post-World War II cultural identity and to critique West Germany's failure to effect social and political change in the postwar years. Analyzing three...

Rhetorical tropes and realities--a double strategy confronts a double standard: Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg negotiates a solution in the seventeenth century.
January 1, 2001... At a time and in a place that for the most part barred women from writing, Catharina Regina yon Greiffenberg (1633-1694) wrote and published by utilizing a number of strategies to circumvent those limitations. The devices she used seem fit...

Illness and health as strategies of resistance and identity formation in the letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz.
January 1, 2001... In her extensive correspondence, Liselotte von der Pfalz provided vivid and blunt descriptions of the court of Louis XIV. The article investigates how Liselotte employs "illness" and "health" as metaphors both of resistance to the court's...

Of gifts, gallantries, and horace: Luise Kulmus (Gottsched) in her early letters.
January 1, 2001... From the beginning of her relationship with Johann Christoph Gottsched, Luise Kulmus (later Luise Gottsched) gave her suitor the benefit of her views on morality and literature. In this article I delineate the difference between their views by...

"People will make for themselves an artificial existence": gender and fashion in the works of Caroline de la Motte Fouque (1775-1831).
January 1, 2001... The theme of fashion in clothing is of central importance to the late Romantic author Caroline de la Motte Fouque. Inspired by the abolition of class-specific dress regulations after the French Revolution, she countered the anthropological and...

A perfect intimacy with death: death, imagination, and femininity in the works of Annette von Droste-Hulshoff.
January 1, 2001... This article investigates the complex interrelation between death, femininity, and art in Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's work. It traces a development from Droste's early works, in which creative expression of the female protagonist is...

Gender and technology in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's "Ein Original".
January 1, 2001... This interpretation of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's story "Ein Original" (1898) highlights the positive portrayal of the title character's daughter, a girl genius in the male-dominated field of technology, and her role in transforming her...

One of a kind.(Short Story)
January 1, 2001... Although critics have always included Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) in the canon, neglected stories like "Ein Original" ("One of a Kind") may help us to reclaim her as a feminist. First published in 1898 and later in the collection Aus...

A "body" of writing: the voice of Henriette Hardenberg.
January 1, 2001... If the body is the site of sexual difference, the place that identifies a given subject as "male" or "female," then it is the poetry and prose of a recently re-discovered Jewish-German Expressionist, Henriette Hardenberg (1894-1993), that...

Between depiction and experience: the exile dreams of Paula Ludwig.
January 1, 2001... Well before her exile to Brazil in 1940, the Austrian-born poet Paula Ludwig began to associate dreaming with the loss of Heimat (homeland)--a notion that she adopted as a literary motif in her lyrical prose volume Traumlandschaft (1935). In...

Eve's legacy: revisions of the biblical creation myth in the poetry of Rose Auslander.
January 1, 2001... The figure of Eve is a powerful and evocative poetic image. In Rose Auslander's poetry, Eve sheds her traditional role as unwitting accomplice to the corruption of humanity and instead becomes a symbol of creation, creativity, and the power of...

Eve's legacy: revisions of the biblical creation myth in the poetry of Rose Auslander.
January 1, 2001... "We cannot understand the history of Eve without seeing her as a deposed Creator-Goddess, and indeed, in some sense as creation itself" writes John Phillips in Eve: The History of an Idea (3). Some of Rose Auslander's early poems, which...

Scattered thoughts on current feminist literary critical work in nineteenth-century German studies.
January 1, 2001... This examination of the current status of feminist scholarly work on nineteenth-century German literature highlights both positive and more problematic developments. It acknowledges the work that is now being done on individual German women...