Christa Reinigs Spiel mit Leseerwartungen in ihrem Roman Entmannung. Die Geschichte Ottos und seiner vier Frauen

Author: Chołuj, Bozena

Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Postmoderne Literatur in deutscher Sprache. Herausgegeben von Henk Harbers. , pp. 187-198(12)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

By referring to Christa Reinig's novel Entmannung, published in 1976, I show how literary analysis can be involved in a postmodern discourse. A philosophical matrix for this article is Judith Butler's reflection on cultural construction of sex and gender, performances of gender, and a power of interpretation. Reinig resigns in her novel from the narrator's authority, but not from a narrator itself. In this way, on the one hand, she strips off a firm narrative perspective and, on the other hand, she plays with the reader's expectations by evoking them with told stories.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2001-05-01