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The Violence Of Merging: Unica Zürn's Writing (On) The Body , Caroline Rupprecht

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This article is about the work of German Surrealist Unica Zürn (1916-1970), known for her autobiographical text about madness, Der Mann im Jasmin: Eindrücke einer Geisteskrankheit (1977). The problem with Zürn's text, as this article demonstrates, is that it becomes nearly impossible to be distinguished from the author's life. Unlike conventional autobiographies, this text raises doubt oyer the sanity of the author who was not only diagnosed with schizophrenia but also made madness the subject of her writing. Zürn's companion, the artist Hans Bellmer, accused her of indulging in madness for the sake of being able to write about it; …

Review Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Bishop, Michael, ed. Women's Poetry in France, 1965-1995. by Martine Antle

Black, Stanley. Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion: The Evolution of a Radical Aesthetic in the Later Novels by Bernardo Antonio González

Fachinger, Petra. Rewriting Germany from the Margins: "Other" German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s by Cornelius Partsch

Graham-Jones, Jean. Exorcising History: Argentine Theater under Dictatorship by Daniel Altamiranda

Wishnia, Kenneth J. Twentieth-Century Ecuadorian Narrative by Adelaida López de Martínez

Restaging Hysteria: Mary Wigman As Writer And Dancer , Laura A. Mclary

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Mary Wigman was not only a leading proponent of the early twentieth-century Expressionist dance movement, but also a writer of poetry and short poetic prose. Despite her assertion that dance was beyond language, she wrote often about dance in an attempt to articulate the kinesthetic experience of dance through languages. This interdisciplinary study explores the intersection of dance and writing for Wigman, focusing on gender coding in writing and dance within the context of early twentieth-century dialogues. Despite the pervasive equation of (feminine) hysteria with dance and (masculine) subjectivity with authorship, Wigman engaged in both activities. I argue that Wigman …

The Double Writing Of Agota Kristof And The New Europe , Martha Kuhlman

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Agota Kristof, a native of Hungary who lives in Switzerland and writes in French, has written a trilogy of novels that explore the borderlines and fractured history of the "New Europe": The Notebook (1986), The Proof (1988), and The Third Lie (1991). Set in an unnamed Central European country, the novels traverse the three successive shocks of Nazism, Socialism, and Capitalism. Through the device of identical twin narrators, brothers Lucas and Claus, Kristof inscribes the story/history (histoire) with a "double writing" that opposes personal and official histories. But this opposition is not a simple one, for the two …

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Aizenberg, Edna. Parricide on the Pampa? A New Study and Translation of Alberto Gerchunoffs "Los gauchos judíos" by Jan Mennell

Emerson, Caryl, ed. Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin by Michael Barry

Finney, Gail. Christa Wolf by Stephen Brockmann

Hoeg, Jerry. Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Paul Fallon

Mendez-Ramirez, Hugo. Neruda's Ekphrastic Experience: Mural Art and Canto general by Agustin Boyer

Perriam, Chris, Michael Thompson, Susan Frenk, and Vanessa Knights. A New History of Spanish Writing: 1939 to the 1990s by William Sherzer

Soto, Francisco. Reinaldo Arenas by Marina Llorente

Epiphanies At The Supermarket: An Interview With Brigitte Kronauer , Jutta Ittner

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Brigitte Kronauer has been called "the greatest German [female] fiction writer of our time" (Marcel Reich-Ranicki). Her stories, novels, and criticism have established her as a uniquely sophisticated literary voice and won her many literary prizes. Kronauer's trademarks are her laser-sharp vision, her luminous prose, and the intricate structures of her uncannily realistic literary universes. Finding the mystical in the mundane and exposing human foibles with subtle irony, Kronauer creates, in the words of one critic, epiphanies at the supermarket. Beneath its everyday surface her fiction deals with the eternal human questions of life, death, and love. At a still …

Published Articles, Vols. 1 - 26

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

A list of articles in volumes 1 - 26.