This book sheds light on the function of female sexuality in a predominantly male genre: naturalist fiction. Gammel reveals that naturalism is frequently implicated in the very power structures it critiques. Reading European and North American naturalism through the lens of feminist and Foucaultian theories of power, Gammel argues that twentieth-century naturalism increasingly deconstructs itself in its depiction of sexuality, inevitably exposing the genre's internal ideological contradictions. The book makes a special contribution to Canadian studies.
"Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume navigates themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, cultural alterity, and social change wrought by the pandemic. The cultural, social, and political concerns that have arisen due to COVID-19 are inextricably intertwined with the ways the pandemic has been discussed, represented, and visualized in global media. The essays included in this volume are concerned with how artists, writers, and advocates uncover the hope, plasticity, and empowerment evident in periods of worldwide loss and struggle-factors which are critical to both overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and fashioning the post-COVID-19 era. Elaborating on concepts of the everyday and the outbreak narrative, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores diverse themes including coping with the crisis through digital distractions, diary writing, and sounds; the unequal vulnerabilities of gender, ethnicity, and age; the role of visuality and creativity including comics and community theatre; and the hopeful vision for the future through urban placemaking, nighttime sociability, and cinema. The book fills an important scholarly gap, providing foundational knowledge from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic through a consideration of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In doing so, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 expands non-medical COVID-19 studies at the intersection of media and communication studies, cultural criticism, and the pandemic"--
Wer die Kunstgeschichtsschreibung kennt, den verwundert es nicht, dass auch beim legendären Dadaismus Frauen "vergessen" wurden. Die Autorin weist nach, dass dies nicht ein Defizit der Historiker ist, sondern, dass es Künstlerkollegen selbst waren, die die Spuren einflussreicher, zeitgenössischer Frauen schon früh verwischt haben. Tristan Tzara tat dies zum Beispiel bei Celine Arnauld, einer der prägenden Dada-Pionierinnen. Das Buch wídmet sich all den Frauen, die den Dadaismus nicht nur im Zentrum geprägt und vorangetrieben haben, sondern auch all denen, die ihn an der Peripherie beeinflussten. Zeitlich und geografisch weitet sich so der Blick: Dabei geraten auch die Mäzeninnen, Verlegerinnen, Modelle und Musen in den Fokus. Das alles ist bestens recherchiert, spannend nacherzählt und klug aufbereitet. Daher ein Buch, das alle angeht, die an der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - und ihren Auswirkungen - interessiert sind
