Hybridity, Alterity, and Gender in Marie Eugenie delle Grazie’s Autobiographical Prose
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22345848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agatha Schwartz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 51-69 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Austrian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-669X • E-ISSN: 2327-1809 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/oas.2016.0022 |
| OpenAlex | W2565915147 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper explores Marie Eugenie delle Grazie’s selected autobiographical narratives through an intersectional analysis of hybridity, ethnic stereotyping, and gender. Although cultural hybridity is presented as a positive reality of interethnic living in the environment of the narrator’s childhood as well as within herself and her family, there is a shift in this imaginative geography toward an everincreasing construction of Germanness as the dominant and desirable identity against non-German minorities. Schwartz contends that delle Grazie’s narratives create a space of ambiguity in their representation of the orientalized Other in the Austro-Hungarian border region of Banat, first and foremost the Serbs. Unlike the dominant representation of Slavic women by canonical Austrian writers along the poles of nurse and prostitute, delle Grazie creates strong and independent Serbian female characters while simultaneously embracing her mother’s German cultural identity and rejecting her as a dominant mother figure. Ultimately, Delle Grazie’s narratives reflect her own struggles both with her hybrid identity and with her self-definition as a woman writer in fin-de-siècle and interwar Vienna
Aesthetics · Alterity · Archaeology · Art · German · Humanities · Hybridity · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Serbian · Slavic languages · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Central European national history · Classics · European Cultural and National Identity · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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