{"id":57450,"date":"2026-06-17T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/?post_type=article&p=57450"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:31:15","slug":"title-spotlight-embodied-realities-tracing-multitudes-in-germanophone-feminist-and-queer-literature-film-and-art","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/fr\/article\/title-spotlight-embodied-realities-tracing-multitudes-in-germanophone-feminist-and-queer-literature-film-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Title Spotlight: ‘Embodied Realities: Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Art’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As part of the Peter Lang Pride Month celebrations, volume editor Flora Roussel<\/strong>\u00a0continues the conversation.
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In times of conservative politics and discourse, the edited volume Embodied Realities<\/a><\/em>\u00a0offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film, performing arts, and the history of ideas. The book provides insights in how literature, film, and art can serve as sites of resistance that challenge normative conceptions of the body and reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributors offer cutting-edge analyses of the artistic power as well as reflections on activist life experiences. Following in the footsteps of Black, feminist, and queer activists who have striven to rethink resistance by giving a voice to those who have been silenced, the volume presents various \u201cothered\u201d realities that defy the expected reality defined by the hegemonic powers in place. It also refocuses attention on \u201cembodiment\u201d by showcasing strategies of reappropriation, disruptions of stereotypes, as well as alternative constructions of community and solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, Chapter 1 features testimony by Katharina Oguntoye, who recounts how she transformed the racist, sexist, and anti-queer reality she lived in into an embodied activism to create spaces of growth. Further, Chapter 5 interrogates marginalization, queerness, and the body in contemporary performances by tracing other (art) histories through the use of queer techniques (freak, crip, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embodied Realities<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is a unique collaboration among activists, authors, and scholars, highlighting the importance of positionality in relation to identity, gender, class, and sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more and purchase the book, here<\/a>. Embodied Realities <\/a><\/em>is Volume 24 in the book series Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture<\/a>, <\/em>edited by Helen Finch and Katherine Stone. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Use code<\/em>\u00a0ER30<\/strong>\u00a0at checkout to receive a\u00a030%<\/strong>\u00a0discount on<\/em> Embodied Realities<\/a>, or contact orders@peterlang.com to order directly.<\/em>\u00a0Valid until 2 July 2026<\/strong>. Not applicable in countries with fixed book pricing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Foreword (Ervin Malakaj)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: Looking Further, Constantly Growing (Flora Roussel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 The One and the Other: Continuing the Work of Audre Lorde in Germany (Katharina Oguntoye)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Writing (through) Trauma in Jasmina Kuhnke\u2019s Schwarzes Herz: Voyeuristic Entertainment or a Path to Collective Healing? (Kathrin Spiller)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 An \u201cOrdinary Grotesque\u201d: Ambiguous Queer Feminist Body Politics in Simone Meier\u2019s Fleisch (Flora Roussel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 From Montreal to Berlin: Carrying on the Work of Audre Lorde (Carolyn Gammon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 The Micropolitics of Contemporary Queer Feminist Performances in Germanophone Countries (Priscilla Wind)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Queer Precarious Lives: Negotiating Diversity in the German Public Broadcasting Web Series Becoming Charlie (Charlotte Kaiser)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 How I Became a Feminist Writer (Albeit a Bad One) (Melanie Raabe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 Feminine Genius on Screen: On Margarethe von Trotta\u2019s Biopics (Francis Tremblay)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flora Roussel <\/strong>is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Montreal. Her research interests include feminist, queer, and intersectional considerations of bodies, relationalities, and affects as well as exophony and its potential to transform literary studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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