DANCING THROUGH THE (NEXT) MINEFIELD, 1 OR HOW AND WHY SHOULD WE READ THE STORIES OF GERMAN WOMEN PRISONERS?. (October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Colvin, Sarah; Woodford, Charlotte; Colvin, Sarah
• Is Part Of: German life and letters. Volume 67:Number 4(2014:Oct.)
• Page Start: 589
• Page End: 603
• Publication Date: 2014-10
• Subjects: German literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Germany -- Periodicals; Germany -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals; Germany -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 830.9
• DOI: 10.1111/glal.12062
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0016-8777

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article considers the circumstances of production and reception of texts by women prisoners in Germany since 1949, and what makes such writing 'worth reading'. I suggest that (a) some of the issues faced by a researcher of prisoner writing now – particularly those around the visibility of the writing and its perceived aesthetic status – reprise issues faced by feminist literary critics in years gone by, and (b) that recognition might assist in the development of appropriate methodologies for approaching prisoner texts by men and women writers.</p> </abstract>