Queer Space? (nicht)binäre geschlechtliche Räume in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur am Beispiel von Antje Rávic Strubel und Sasha Marianna Salzmann
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 27496778
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik
- Article number
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- First page
- 195
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2364-9224
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Literature, Culture, History and Society
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Combining theoretical approaches from the fields of gender studies and the ‘spatial turn’, this article examines spatial representation in the works of contemporary queer German-language writers. Relating key concepts of liminal and ‘third’ spaces to queer theory’s concern of overcoming and eliminating binary structures, the article provides an analysis of Strubel’s and Salzmann’s novels as texts seeking to establish queer spaces in a hostile environment shaped by rigid gender norms and national borders. The article argues that whilst the mobile queer characters’ hopes for acceptance and belonging remain realistically unrealised, the texts present a powerful queer advocacy for societal change.
