Women in German Yearbook articles from January 1 2002

Women in German Yearbook archives from January 1 2002

Preface.
January 1, 2002... The time during which this volume of the Yearbook has been prepared is one that, at least for its American editors and contributors, has been marked by much that has made us uneasy and despairing. It began with the continuing struggle to come...

The New Scheherazade.(criticism and interpretation of Lilian Faschinger's first novel)(Excerpt)
January 1, 2002... The New Scheherazade (Die neue Scheherazade, Paul List Verlag, 1986) is Lilian Faschinger's first novel. As in the original Thousand and One Nights, Faschinger's narrator tells stories to escape death, if not literal death at the hands of a...

Identity through imagination: an interview with Lilian Faschinger.(Interview)
January 1, 2002... Introduction Lilian Faschinger will be familiar to many Yearbook readers as the special guest at the October 2002 Women in German conference. A love of mobility and an intermittent need to escape the patriarchal atmosphere of Austria have...

Everything Will Be Fine: an interview with Fatima El-Tayeb.(Interview)
January 1, 2002... Introduction Fatima El-Tayeb collaborated with director Angelina Maccarone in writing the script for the feature film Everything Will Be Fine (Alles wird gut, 1997), for which they received a grant from the state of Schleswig-Holstein in...

Local funding and global movement: minority women's filmmaking and the German film landscape of the late 1990s.
January 1, 2002... The German cinema landscape of the 1990s was characterized by two major trends: one featured international mainstream successes with post-feminist representations of strong female heroines, and the other consisted of a new independent minority...

Eighteenth-century libertinism in a time of change: representations of Catherine the Great.
January 1, 2002... During and soon after Catherine II's long reign in Russia, accounts of her in her native Germany often included gendered representations of her sexual behavior. Assessments in prayers, biographies, caricatures, and histories shifted from chaste...

Suffering, silence, and the female voice in German fiction around 1800.
January 1, 2002... I investigate the link between the silence, self-expression, and illness of female characters in five German novels in the context of medical writing. Is the frequent reticence of sickly heroines a rejection of language in favor of a more...

The reception of the bluestockings by eighteenth-century German women writers.
January 1, 2002... Enlightenment Germany had no contemporary equivalent to the English Bluestocking circle: a network of well-regarded, scholarly women who sought to further women's interests through their social and literary activities. The impact of the...

Nineteenth-century German literary women's reception of Madame de Stael.
January 1, 2002... This essay examines Madame de Stael's impact on German women writers from Romanticism to the Vormarz, including Caroline Paulus, F.H. Unger, Johanna Schopenhauer, Ida Hahn-Hahn, and Luise Muhlbach. I argue that these German women refer in their...

Capturing Hawai`i's rare beauty: scientific desire and precolonial ambivalence in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Haimatochare".
January 1, 2002... E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1819 epistolary short story "Haimatochare" depicts the desires of two natural scientists on a mission to Hawai`i that leads to their tragic downfall. In this tale, the colonial encounter becomes the site onto which...

Amalia Schoppe's Die Colonisten and the "menace of mimicry".('The Colonists')(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Amalia Schoppe (1791-1858) was well known as an editor, publicist, and popular author in her own time, but she was soon forgotten. She is accorded a place in German literary history as the mentor of Friedrich Hebbel, but rarely as a writer, and...

Else Lasker-Schuler: writing hysteria.(hysteria and sex roles in the works of Else Lasker-Schuler)
January 1, 2002... An examination of Else Lasker-Schuler's connection to the discourse of hysteria so pervasive in her day tells us much about how she viewed herself as a woman and an author. Images and metaphors of hysteria figure within Lasker-Schuler's prose...

Ethnicity and gender in Else Lasker-Schuler's "Oriental" stories: "Der Amoklaufer" ("Tschandragupta") and "Ached Bey".
January 1, 2002... In her two prose works Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads (The Nights of Tino of Baghdad, 1907) and Der Prinz yon Theben (The Prince of Thebes, 1914) Else Lasker-Schuler thematizes the connection of ethnicity, gender, and art in an imaginary Oriental...

Arthur Schnitzler's Fraulein Else and the end of the bourgeois tragedy.(women and sexuality in German literature)
January 1, 2002... Schnitzler's novella Fraulein Else can be read as the last representative and "death-sentence" of the bourgeois tragedy. A comparison with Lessing's Emilia Galotti informs my reading of the later story and shows how new socio-economical...