Embodied Realities: Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Art: 24 (Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1803748753 ISBN 13: 9781803748757

Publisher: Peter Lang, 2026

Synopsis

In the last decade, critical Germanophone cultural productions have led a feminist and/or queer resistance against the rise of conservative politics. Embodied Realities offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film, performing arts, and the history of ideas. It features a unique collaboration among activists, authors, and scholars and proposes a pluridisciplinary, multimodal, and transnational approach to "embodiment" and "reality." In exploring the intertwining of activism and creation, contributors interrogate "embodiment" as a practice that fights commodification and discrimination and "reality" as the illusory state of normativity as well as the hopeful becoming of alternatives that reconfigure societies. The testimonies included in the volume allow for a deeper understanding of life experiences that have, in turn, inspired cultural productions. Academic essays vary from case studies to studies of broader corpora, highlighting positionality, identity, and sexuality.

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About the Author

Flora Roussel is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Montreal. Her research interests include feminist, queer, and intersectional considerations of bodies, relationalities, and affects as well as exophony and its potential to transform literary studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1803748753
• ISBN 13: 9781803748757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Roussel Flora