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Written in a radical avant-gardist style, comparable to Brecht's theatre, Lasker-Schüler's plays (Die Wupper, 1909; Arthur Aronymus und seine Väter, 1932; IchundIch, 1937-1941) are critical performances of gender conflicts, militarism, and anti-Semitism. The present study is the first to analyze her dramatic OEuvre in it's entirety. Inca M. Rumold is Associate Professor of German, Spanish, and Comparative Literture. She edited and introduced the first translation of Lasker-Schüers Plays into English (2005). Contents Introduction: The Outsider as Insider. The Expressionist Playwright Else Lasker-Schüer Revisited (pdf-Datei, ca. 740 KB) 1. Lasker-Schüler in the context of European Women Playwrights 1900-1930 2. Dark River (1909): Deconstructing Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Imperial Germany 3. Arthur Aronymus and his Ancestors (1932) Performance, Defamiliarization, Reconciliation in Difference 4. I and I (1937-1941): Satire and Black Humor: The Exiled Poet in I and I Staging the Self 5. The Malik (1913/1917): Excursion: Anti-War Narrative as Performance of the Self Epilogue Performances of Else Lasker-Schüler's plays after 1945 Works cited

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• Full title: Gender, Race and Politics in the Plays of Else Lasker-Schüler
• Author: Inca M. Rumold
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140
• EAN: 9783938375174
• ISBN: 3938375175
• ID: 12806730
• Publisher: Arco Verlag GmbH
• Weight: 217 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 149 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: October 2006

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