Authors: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
ISBN-13: 9781572410374, ISBN-10: 157241037X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ariadne Press CA
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Literature and films created by women in Austria since 1945 are directed towards social and ethnic consciousness-raising. They are conceived as the writers' responsibility to tell the truth. The texts written in the 1950s and early 1960s went largely unrecognized and remained hidden within the shadows of the body of art by men. The socio-political implications of these works were only understood by the women writers as well as by filmmakers who came of age during the women's movement in the 1960s. During the 1970s the literary and film texts of the younger generation which slowly emerged from the shadows of Austria's male-dominated artist milieus strongly assert feminist views and pleas. Another decade later, in the wake of the Waldheim affair, reactivating memory became central to many women authors and filmmakers in Austria's society, caught up with forgetting and repressing.
Preface | 3 | |
Introduction | 7 | |
Out from the Shadows! - Ilse Aichinger's Poetic Dreams of the Unfettered Life | 17 | |
Murder and Self-Resuscitation in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina | 38 | |
Mayrocker's Fictional Autobiography | 55 | |
Doris Muhringer at Seventy-Five: "Reisen wir" | 66 | |
Ruth Kluger's weiter leben: eine Jugend: A Jewish Woman's "Letter to Her Mother" | 77 | |
History from a Woman's Perspective: Renate Welsh's Lufthaus | 88 | |
Barbara Frischmuth's Use of Mythology in Her "Demeter Trilogy" | 101 | |
Anna Mitgutsch's Portrayal of Women: Not Only a Feminist Issue | 111 | |
The Possibilities and Limitations of Language: Elisabeth Reichart's Fotze | 128 | |
Elfriede Gerstl: Understatement | 143 | |
Elfriede Czurda: Poison and Play | 158 | |
Med Ana Fraundintn: Critical Dialect Poetry. Lesser Known Poetic Ventures by Christine Nostlinger, Annemarie Regensburger, and Anna Nost | 172 | |
Writing and Remembering - Acts of Resistance in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina and Der Fall Franza, and Elfriede Jelinek's Lust and Die Klavierspielerin: Case Studies in Hysteria | 192 | |
Bachmann, Jelinek, Schroeter: Malina, From Metaphoric Text to Encoded Cinema | 206 | |
Austria's Feminist Avant-Garde: Valie Export's and Elfriede Jelinek's Aesthetic Innovations | 229 | |
The Prosthetic Womb: Technology and Reproduction in the Work of Valie Export | 242 | |
Out from the Shadows, into the Shadows: Kitty Kino's "Kino" | 252 | |
Ruth Beckermann: Re-Activating Memory - In Search of Time Lost | 264 | |
From the Shadows into Silence: What Remains of the World of Milena Jesenska. Nadja Seelich's Film Sie sass im Glashaus und warf mit Steinen in Context | 277 | |
Interview with Nadja Seelich: August 29, 1994 at 7:30 p.m., Cafe Museum, Vienna, Austria | 292 | |
Contributors | 300 | |
Name Index | 304 |