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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008479603321

Titolo

Disability in German literature, film, and theater / / edited by Eleoma Joshua and Michael Schillmeier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, N.Y., : Camden House, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78847-7

9786612788475

1-57113-720-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh German yearbook, , 1937-0857 ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

JoshuaEleoma

SchillmeierMichael

Disciplina

700.456109043

Soggetti

German literature - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Germany - History

People with disabilities in motion pictures

People with disabilities and the performing arts - Germany

People with disabilities in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Literarische Anthropologie und Groteske. Johann Karl Wezels Tobias Knaut und die Anfänge einer literarischen Darstellung von „Behinderung“ um 1800 -- Misreading the Body: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober -- Exzentrische Empfindung. Raoul Hausmann und die Prothetik der Zwischenkriegszeit -- Bridging the Silence: Towards a Literary Memory of Nazi Euthanasia -- “Die gräßliche Blume des Grinds”: Disfigurement, Disablement, and Discrimination in Soma Morgenstern’s Jewish Trilogy Funken im Abgrund -- Schöne blinde Geigerinnen und mürrische blinde Bauern -- „Wenn Sie bereit sind, in mir einen Menschen zu sehen“.1 Behinderung und die Macht des Blickes in Günter Grass’ Die Blechtrommel -- „Der hinkende Vogel verfremdet den Flug“ — Heiner Müllers „Philoktet“ im Kontext der Disability Studies -- From Impairment to Empowerment: A Re-Assessment of Libuše Moníková’s Representation of Disability in Pavane für eine verstorbene Infantin --



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Sommario/riassunto

This volume focuses on disability in German literature, film and theatre. It examines cultural representations of disability that raise questions about 'the humane gaze' and posits disability as historically central to discussions of humanity, modernity, and social and moral behaviour in German-language literature, film and theatre.