German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

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German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: general Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups

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Collection: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

Language: English

Published by: De Gruyter

Published on: 1 July 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 277 pages

ISBN: 9783110392333


In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.

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