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Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film

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352 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9147-7 (ISBN)
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Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.

“Precarity is everywhere now,” sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and “deaths of despair” are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings.

Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film explores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.

Sophie Duvernoy holds a PhD in German from Yale University, USA, and is a translator in Berlin, Germany. Karsten Olson is Lecturer of German Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA. Ulrich Plass is Professor of Letters and German Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.

List of FIgures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
(Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA)

1. Literature and the History of Precarity: Interview with Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL Berlin)
(Karsten Olson, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA)
2. Precarious Property: Adam Müller’s Theory of Poetic Possession
(Jörg Kreienbrock, Northwestern University, USA)
3. Die Judenbuche and the Rights of the Poor
(Karsten Olson, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA)
4. We Poor People: The Personal Experience of Precariousness in Dantons Tod and Woyzeck
(Michael Swellander, University of Iowa, USA)
5. Hilfe von Mensch zu Mensch: Social Precarity and the Elberfeld System
(Rebekah O. McMillan, Angelo State University, USA)
6. Precarity and Form: Lu Märten’s Intervention in the Worker’s Autobiography
(Mari Jarris, Princeton University, USA)
7. In Search of a Divine Calling, or Lunch: Unproductive Labor in Emmy Hennings’ Das Brandmal
(Sophie Duvernoy, Yale University, USA)
8. Typists as ‘billige Ware’: White-Collar Women’s Work in Weimar Literature
(Mary Hennessy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
9. Unemployment, Organization, and Reproductive Self-Determination in Kuhle Wampe
(Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA)
10. "Hidden Stockpiles of Words and Images": An Interview with Thomas Heise
(Matthias Rothe, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA)
11. Biopolitics and Superstition in Barbara Albert’s Böse Zellen
(Lena Trüper, UCLA, USA)
12. Precarious Lives and Social Decline in Marlene Streeruwitz’ Jessica, 30. and Kristine Bilkaus Die Glücklichen
(Lisa Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
13. Linguistic Precarity in Contemporary German Film
(Lindsay Preseau, University of Cincinnati, USA)

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Directions in German Studies
Zusatzinfo 49 b&w images
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5013-9147-X / 150139147X
ISBN-13 978-1-5013-9147-7 / 9781501391477
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