Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Herrmann, Mareike

Titel

Mad Mädchen: Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film by Margaret McCarthy (review)

Ist Teil von

• German Studies Review, 2019-02, Vol.42 (1), p.199-201

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Highlighting their disjointed, fragmented, and sometimes immobile selves, she argues that a playful performativity aids the characters' potential for healing and solidarity, and even possible transformation of wounded relationships, both in the private and the broader public spheres. In her engagement with the mother and the iconic Alice Schwarzer, Roche develops a dialogic relationship, creating a transgressive sexuality in which trauma and self-discovery are enacted via the female body, desire, and bodily fluids. [...]she points out that both films leave us with representations that "occlude … the fragmented, incongruous selfhood that fuels the feminist project" (229).