Exile through a Gendered Lens

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness.

'Can we envision a world where we embrace otherness? In an increasingly mobile, but fractious world, Exile Through a Gendered Lens adds another link into the history of English, French, German, and Spanish women writers and filmmakers that explore, expose and/or subvert gendered otherness. It is a welcome and useful text that I will include in my class.' - María Camí-Vela, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Autorentext
GESA ZINNAssociate Professor of German Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.
MAUREEN TOBIN STANLEYAssociate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; G.Zinn M.T.Stanley Exile in Letters: Bertolt Brecht's Collaborators Elisabeth Hauptmann and Margarete Steffin; P.Hanssen A Lost Voice Remembered: María Teresa León's Triumph; M.Thrond The House of Memory: Exile in Alicia Dujovne Ortiz's El árbol de la gitana ; K.López Writing from the Margins, Writing in the Margins: Christa Wolf's Medea; A.Eubanks Liberating Mythography: The Intertextual Discourse between Golden Age Masters' Artistic Rendering of Mythological Banishment and Iciar Bollaín's Filmic Portrayal of Domestic Violence as Exile in Te doy mis ojos ; M.T.Stanley Souls in Transit: Exilic Journeys in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007); G.Zinn Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas in European 'Immigration Cinema'; I.Ballesteros Conclusion; G.Zinn M.T.Stanley