Simone Pfleger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Pfleger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfleger |
| SIGNATURE | PFLEGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4325-5997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lauren Berlant. On the Inconvenience of Other People
Transverse Disciplines
Introduction
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Temporality of Tolerance and Acts of Endurance in Fremde Haut
This essay introduces the concept of a temporality of tolerance in Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut (Unveiled, 2005) and investigates how acts of endurance impact the protagonist’s corporeal legibility and sense of belonging. Drawing on concepts of subjectivity and temporality by scholars such as Judith Butler and Elizabeth Povinelli, the analysis investigates how long particular bodies are condoned within socio-cultural and political power struc…
Fuchs, Anne. Precarious Times
Claudia Breger. Making Worlds
Diversity, Social Justice, and Accessibility in Grenzenlos Deutsch
Grenzenlos Deutsch ( GD) is an open educational resource (OER) that functions as a digital archive. Considerations of equity, social justice, and accessibility inform decision-making and workflow at all stages of fashioning the GD curriculum as a no-cost alternative to traditional beginning German textbooks. In this essay, six members of the GD team reflect on digital curation, considering how the team’s collective identities, values, and instruc…
Libidinal Economies
The fulfillment of sexual fantasies and libidinal pleasure plays a central role in constructions of desire, power, and narratives of self-optimization and freedom in three of the main characters in Barbara Kirchner’s crime novel Die verbesserte Frau (2012). This essay focuses on the figure of the Prototyp, a woman who, against her will, has undergone neurological reprogramming to experience feelings of pain as pleasure. As figures in the novel ne…
Bureaucratic violence, barred bodies, and frames of control in Angelina Maccarone’s Unveiled
Angelina Maccarone’s film is the powerful story of a female Iranian asylum seeker Fariba who assumes the identity of a male countryman to avoid deportation in Germany and is exposed to various forms of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic violence. Through close textual analysis, this essay critically analyzes the cinematographic and narrative content of one particular sequence and argues how regulatory power structures of the state determine Fa…
In and Out of Uniform
This essay explores ways of reading Christa Reinig’s 1981 Mädchen ohne Uniform, which was revised and republished in 1982 as the short story “Die ewige Schule,” in conversation with the texts that inspired them, stressing connectivities in gender, sexual, and educational politics across time. Mädchen ohne Uniform and “Die ewige Schule” revisit the iconic stories of Christa Winsloe’s Ritter Nérestan and Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform from the…
Narrating Bodies into Existence
This essay examines how Austrian author Thomas Glavinic's novel Lisa (2011) challenges the necessity of corporeal presence as a precondition for becoming a subject with a legible and stable identity. Focusing on protagonist Tom's storytelling and his descriptions of Lisa, the mysterious criminal who is haunting him, this essay argues for an ontology of fluidity as an analytical framework for interrogating the ways in which relationality enables c…
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Narrating Bodies into Existence
This essay examines how Austrian author Thomas Glavinic's novel Lisa (2011) challenges the necessity of corporeal presence as a precondition for becoming a subject with a legible and stable identity. Focusing on protagonist Tom's storytelling and his descriptions of Lisa, the mysterious criminal who is haunting him, this essay argues for an ontology of fluidity as an analytical framework for interrogating the ways in which relationality enables c…
In and Out of Uniform
This essay explores ways of reading Christa Reinig’s 1981 Mädchen ohne Uniform, which was revised and republished in 1982 as the short story “Die ewige Schule,” in conversation with the texts that inspired them, stressing connectivities in gender, sexual, and educational politics across time. Mädchen ohne Uniform and “Die ewige Schule” revisit the iconic stories of Christa Winsloe’s Ritter Nérestan and Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform from the…
Libidinal Economies
The fulfillment of sexual fantasies and libidinal pleasure plays a central role in constructions of desire, power, and narratives of self-optimization and freedom in three of the main characters in Barbara Kirchner’s crime novel Die verbesserte Frau (2012). This essay focuses on the figure of the Prototyp, a woman who, against her will, has undergone neurological reprogramming to experience feelings of pain as pleasure. As figures in the novel ne…
Bureaucratic violence, barred bodies, and frames of control in Angelina Maccarone’s Unveiled
Angelina Maccarone’s film is the powerful story of a female Iranian asylum seeker Fariba who assumes the identity of a male countryman to avoid deportation in Germany and is exposed to various forms of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic violence. Through close textual analysis, this essay critically analyzes the cinematographic and narrative content of one particular sequence and argues how regulatory power structures of the state determine Fa…
Fuchs, Anne. Precarious Times
Claudia Breger. Making Worlds
Diversity, Social Justice, and Accessibility in Grenzenlos Deutsch
Grenzenlos Deutsch ( GD) is an open educational resource (OER) that functions as a digital archive. Considerations of equity, social justice, and accessibility inform decision-making and workflow at all stages of fashioning the GD curriculum as a no-cost alternative to traditional beginning German textbooks. In this essay, six members of the GD team reflect on digital curation, considering how the team’s collective identities, values, and instruc…
Transverse Disciplines
Introduction
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Temporality of Tolerance and Acts of Endurance in Fremde Haut
This essay introduces the concept of a temporality of tolerance in Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut (Unveiled, 2005) and investigates how acts of endurance impact the protagonist’s corporeal legibility and sense of belonging. Drawing on concepts of subjectivity and temporality by scholars such as Judith Butler and Elizabeth Povinelli, the analysis investigates how long particular bodies are condoned within socio-cultural and political power struc…
Lauren Berlant. On the Inconvenience of Other People
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)