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Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) - Softcover
This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction between choreography and literary writing in German modernism. It explores the connections between dance, literature and gender discourses with a focus on a key period of the Austro-German dance scene: the years between 1900 and 1933. Drawing on influential feminist and gender theories, this book evaluates the choreographies of leading artists such as Grete Wiesenthal, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Anita Berber, and the sensational ‘dream’ dancer Madeleine Guipet. In response to growing criticism of ballet, German modern dance reflected and helped shape a reassessment of images of the female, embracing both essentialist and constructionist models of femininity. It also triggered a range of literary responses from dance artists themselves and from contemporary authors – some high-profile, others less well known. This interdisciplinary work offers analyses and part-translations of texts by Alfred Döblin, Frank Wedekind and Carl Sternheim, amongst others, which have to date received little attention in Anglo-American cultural studies due to their unavailability in English.
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The Author: Alexandra Kolb is Lecturer and Chair of Dance Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand, having previously worked in the UK and Germany. She received her doctorate from Cambridge.
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- PublisherPeter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 3039113518
- ISBN 13 9783039113514
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages316
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