Conceiving of a Realfictional Body
Material Feminisms and Jenny Erpenbeck's Geschichte vom alten Kind (1999)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20656133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Necia Chronister (Kansas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-137 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The German Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gequ.12063 |
| OpenAlex | W2800647465 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Scholarship on embodied reading has conventionally assumed a one‐way relationship between the fictional world and the body. Bodies respond to representation—affectively, emotionally, and/or sexually—and are not typically considered to have an active role in the construction of the text itself. However, there is an emerging trend in German literary studies toward reexamining the material body and its relationship to language. New material feminist theories insist on understanding the body neither in a metaphoric manner nor as a product of discourse but, instead, as lived material experience. In this article, I propose a way to read from a material‐ feminist standpoint by positioning the material bodies of the reader and the author at the interstices of the material world and the linguistically constructed world of fiction. I then read Jenny Erpenbeck's Geschichte vom alten Kind to illustrate the ways in which the fictional body possesses traces of our materiality as well as its own agency
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Literature · Materiality (auditing) · Politics · Reading (process) · Representation (politics) · Scholarship · Sociology · German Literature and Culture Studies · Linguistic research and analysis · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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