Elizabeth Boa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3871748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Boa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Boa |
| SIGNATURE | BOA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Talking Crows and a Fig‐tree Narrator
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum and Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees were both released in 2021. Both juxtapose Mediterranean islands and European capital cities, notably Berlin and London respectively, and both deal with extreme political violence. Özdamar's narrator recalls the Armenian genocide in 1915, preceding the founding in 1923 of the Turkish nation state and a population exchange that turned the Greek/Tur…
Urban Modernity and the Politics of Heimat
This essay explores an irony running through Gabriele Tergit's Berlin novel Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm (1931): Heimat kitsch serves as a marketing brand for property speculation that is destroying Heimat in the sense of homes and familiar city localities. The novel conveys different ways of feeling at home in a great city, whether at work, or in cafés, parks, and streets full of personal memories and cultural associations. The politics o…
Losing the Plot? Kleist, Kafka, and Disappearing Grand Narratives
Drawing on the narrative theories of E. M. Forster, Paul Ricoeur and others, this essay explores structural affinities in fiction by Kleist and Kafka. Kafka's ‘Kleine Fabel’ serves as a miniature model of the interplay of time and space in story ( fabula ) and plot ( syuzhet ). The analysis uncovers a hermeneutic gap, which, despite the clear ending, leaves readers with the feeling of losing the plot; the minimally consolatory close of Kleist's ‘…
Warring Pleasures and their Price
This essay explores connections between the literary representation of women's pleasure, the aesthetic evaluation of fiction perceived as pleasurable reading for women, and sex/gender discourse stretching back to the eighteenth century as the age which saw the beginnings of a recognisably modern literary market. These reflections provide a framework to consider the kinds of pleasure offered by two novels, one from the last century and one recent …
Özdamar's Autobiographical Fictions
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's novels Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei · hat zwei Türen · aus einer kam ich rein · aus der anderen ging ich raus (1992) and Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), are formally hybrid: as fictional autobiographies they mix invention and history; as first-person narrations they produce the divided figure of the narrator/protagonist; in mixing German with transliterated Turkish or Turkish-German patois and fragments of many other…
Revoicing Silenced Sirens
The episode of Odysseus’ encounter with the Sirens in Horkheimer's and Adorno's Dialektik der Aufklärung follows on a long history of images of Sirens and other water‐women in modernist literature which proliferated around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, when masculine and feminine roles were hotly contested under the impact of rapid social change and of the first feminist movement. At issue here is a shift in this discourse …
Heimat
1. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain 2. Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions 3. A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt 4. (Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre 5. At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film 6. Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde, Emil N…
Heimat A German Dream
The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialecti…
Kafka
Women and the 'Wende'
Women, Life and Letters
Aspects of distorted sexuality in German expressionist drama. With particular reference to Wedekind, Kokoschka and Kaiser
Creepy-crawlies
Kroetz's Nicht Fisch Nicht Fleisch
Asking the Thing for the Form in Rilke's Neue Gedichte
Günter Grass and the German Gremlin
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Günter Grass and the German Gremlin
Asking the Thing for the Form in Rilke's Neue Gedichte
Kroetz's Nicht Fisch Nicht Fleisch
Aspects of distorted sexuality in German expressionist drama. With particular reference to Wedekind, Kokoschka and Kaiser
Creepy-crawlies
Women, Life and Letters
Women and the 'Wende'
Kafka
Heimat A German Dream
The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialecti…
Heimat
1. Introduction: Mapping the Terrain 2. Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions 3. A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt 4. (Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre 5. At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film 6. Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde, Emil N…
Revoicing Silenced Sirens
The episode of Odysseus’ encounter with the Sirens in Horkheimer's and Adorno's Dialektik der Aufklärung follows on a long history of images of Sirens and other water‐women in modernist literature which proliferated around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, when masculine and feminine roles were hotly contested under the impact of rapid social change and of the first feminist movement. At issue here is a shift in this discourse …
Özdamar's Autobiographical Fictions
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's novels Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei · hat zwei Türen · aus einer kam ich rein · aus der anderen ging ich raus (1992) and Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), are formally hybrid: as fictional autobiographies they mix invention and history; as first-person narrations they produce the divided figure of the narrator/protagonist; in mixing German with transliterated Turkish or Turkish-German patois and fragments of many other…
Warring Pleasures and their Price
This essay explores connections between the literary representation of women's pleasure, the aesthetic evaluation of fiction perceived as pleasurable reading for women, and sex/gender discourse stretching back to the eighteenth century as the age which saw the beginnings of a recognisably modern literary market. These reflections provide a framework to consider the kinds of pleasure offered by two novels, one from the last century and one recent …
Losing the Plot? Kleist, Kafka, and Disappearing Grand Narratives
Drawing on the narrative theories of E. M. Forster, Paul Ricoeur and others, this essay explores structural affinities in fiction by Kleist and Kafka. Kafka's ‘Kleine Fabel’ serves as a miniature model of the interplay of time and space in story ( fabula ) and plot ( syuzhet ). The analysis uncovers a hermeneutic gap, which, despite the clear ending, leaves readers with the feeling of losing the plot; the minimally consolatory close of Kleist's ‘…
Urban Modernity and the Politics of Heimat
This essay explores an irony running through Gabriele Tergit's Berlin novel Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm (1931): Heimat kitsch serves as a marketing brand for property speculation that is destroying Heimat in the sense of homes and familiar city localities. The novel conveys different ways of feeling at home in a great city, whether at work, or in cafés, parks, and streets full of personal memories and cultural associations. The politics o…
Talking Crows and a Fig‐tree Narrator
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum and Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees were both released in 2021. Both juxtapose Mediterranean islands and European capital cities, notably Berlin and London respectively, and both deal with extreme political violence. Özdamar's narrator recalls the Armenian genocide in 1915, preceding the founding in 1923 of the Turkish nation state and a population exchange that turned the Greek/Tur…
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