Homoeroticism and the liberated woman as tropes of subversion: Grete Weil's literary provocations

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The reasons for lesser success of Grete Weil's novel 'Generationen' are discussed. The novel was not as successful as it's predecessors because of its explicit focus on romantic relationships among women and extreme portrayals of the liberated woman and homosexual desires.

Women, Homosexuality, Weil, Grete, Generationen (Novel)

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Murder, he wrote: The fate of the woman in Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein

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The fundemental thematic relationship between Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein and Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina is analyzed. The machinations of patriarchal identity politics lead to erasure of female protagonists from both the novels.

Patriarchy, Patriarchs and patriarchate, Malina (Novel), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (Novel), Frisch, Max

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Postmodernism and the place of nostalgia in Ingeborg Bachmann's "Franza Fragment."

Article Abstract:

Historical emotion of nostalgia and the evolution of postmodernism in Germany, with reference to Ingeborg Bachmann's "Franza Fragment", is discussed.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Analysis, Postmodernism, Nostalgia, Novels, Franza Fragment (Novel)

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