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 structures and at what point they register as queer and simply too much to tolerate. As such, this essay will undertake a reading of the film that grapples with the multilayered quality of subjectivities. It foregrounds how the film’s protagonist navigates the complex force fields of power within German society, in which the character is able to register as present at certain times and is overlooked or rendered invisible at others

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Queer · Reading (process · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German History and Society · German legal, social, and political studies · Law · Philosophy