du, alice: eine anrufung - Softcover

Scharbert, Simone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3942375680 ISBN 13: 9783942375689

Publisher: Edition Azur, 2024

Synopsis

Since her posthumous journal, Alice James has been considered an icon of early feminism. And yet her name is largely unknown to this day. Only when the language comes to her brothers, the novelist Henry James as well as the philosopher and psychologist William James, or on Susan Sontag, who dedicated a play to her, you know to classify them. In Simone Scharbert's prose debut, Alice James finally takes the central position that her life never stated: she herself is the addressee of this invocation. In a raging stream of images, associations and quotes, the tragedy of this life becomes tangible: the story of a woman who grows up in an intellectual household but who remains denied access to education and study. A woman fighting against the stigma of hysteria diagnosis, used by the brothers as material for their writing and studies, by the doctors as a test object for pseudoscientific therapy methods. A woman in whose dysfunctional body constricted by crinoline, bodice and social conventions dwells an intellectually awake mind.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edition Azur
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3942375680
• ISBN 13: 9783942375689
• Binding: Paperback