Elfriede Jelinek's Language of Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4070720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatrice Hanssen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Issue | 68 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3108665 |
| OpenAlex | W2330156274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
I. by Other Elfriede Jelinek's writings can perhaps best be read as a sustained critique of the presence of violence in postwar Austria. True to her programmatic Bachmann essay, War by Other Means [Der Krieg mit anderen Mitteln], most of her novels, plays, and short essays dissect the covert but insidious continuation of fascist ideology and its belligerent potential in postwar gender relations. While novels such as The Piano Teacher [Die Klavierspielerin] (1983) or Lust (1989) place the force of the analysis on body politics and the pornographic exploitation of women's bodies to uncover their underlying war-like economy, other recent texts have turned to the epistemological and philosophical foundations of fascism, evident in Wolken. Heim (1988) and Totenauberg (1991), or to the neo-Nazism of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPO). That gender inequity is to be regarded as the covert perpetuation of fascism and its victim-perpetrator dialectic is, to be sure, an assumption that underlies much of first-wave German feminism and women's literature as it emerged after the World II. Its theoretical justification had been provided by Horkheimer and Adorno in the Dialectic ofEnlightenment, when they established a correlation between the violence of instrumental reason, the biopolitics of fascism, anti-Semitism, and the historical objectification of women as phusis.1 The legacy of this tradition can be discerned in the New German Feminism of the 1970s, no
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |