Alterity
Canonical lists
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Christa Reinig
Cultural representation
Elfriede Jelinek
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German canon
German literature
Goethe
Ingeborg Bachmann
Klaus Mann
Marginality
Openly gay German literature
Queerness
Schiller
Thomas Mann
Product details
- ISBN 9781571131782
- Weight: 936g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 1998
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature.
This collection of twenty-three essays sets its sights on the points of queerness, marginality, and alterity already present within the German canon and introduces further difference and deviation in the form of openly gay Germanliterature in order to promote the always-ongoing shift in cultural representation. Queering the Canon provides new analyses, from queer perspectives, of texts by authors whose names are familiar to canonical lists, including Goethe, Schiller, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Reinig, and Elfriede Jelinek. It also makes welcome room for discussions of literary works that have seldom received scholarly attention.
CHRISTOPH LOREY is a professor of German at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. JOHN PLEWS teaches at the University of Alberta.
