Date of Award
Spring 5-11-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Modern & Classical Languages
First Advisor
Faye Stewart
Abstract
What makes identity readable? To answer this question, I examine the constructions of queer, non-German women in three contemporary transnational German films, Aimée und Jaguar, Fremde Haut and Auf der anderen Seite. To become readable, and thus to survive within the socio-political realm of German culture, these protagonists must construct and perform interconnected dimensions of identity— sex, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, language, clothing, and name—that can be located along a hegemonic-defined continuum. But when the characters cannot be read within this framework, they trouble dominant readings and understandings of their positions in this system and disrupt normative conceptions of identity. These threats to the system, however, do not lead to a renegotiation of the protagonists’ identities. Rather, hegemonic German society reacts to the unreadability of these queer figures by violently rejecting them through deportation and/or death.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2759786
Recommended Citation
Pfleger, Simone, "Konstruiertheit, Inszeniertheit Und ,,Verstehbarkeit" Von Identitäten in Aimée Und Jaguar, Fremde Haut Und Auf Der Anderen Seite." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2012.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2759786