- AutorIn
- Professor Doktor Stefan Horlacher Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
- Titel
- “From the idea that the self is not given to us...”
- Untertitel
- On the Relevance of Comparative Approaches, the Importance of Narrative and the Knowledge of Literature for Masculinity Studies
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-364378
- Quellenangabe
- Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur Herausgeber: Norbert Bachleitner
Erscheinungsort: Berlin; Boston
Verlag: de Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Jahrgang: 43
Heft: 2
Seiten: 327-347
ISSN: 0340-4528
E-ISSN: 1865-9128 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2018
- Abstract (EN)
- One of the consequences of emphasizing plurality – so characteristic for current masculinity studies – is that the question of commonalities and similarities of masculinities has been neglected, and therefore the relationship between mas- culinity as a concept and its plural forms has to be rethought. One way of doing this involves conceiving of masculinity as having a largely discursive or narrative structure and focusing on the relationality and interdependency of masculinities by paying special attention to stories and genres as their paramount components. If one takes narrative to be an ontological condition of social life which exemplarily manifests itself in literature and the arts, it is precisely here that a plethora of narratives of masculinity becomes ‘visible’ in a reading process that can be conceptualized as an act of imagining and a process of transfer during which readers perpetually ‘stage’ themselves, while the performative function of narrative allows for a variety of new masculine gender identities that become available through their very conception in literature/art. Combining comparative masculinity studies with the concept of narrative paves the way for a new, more encompassing, relational and intersectional understanding, if not definition of masculinity.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zum Artikel, der zuerst in der Zeitschrift 'Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur' erschienen ist
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2018-0016 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Männlichkeiten, Pluralitäten, Geschlechtsidentität, Narrative
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- masculinities, pluralities, gender identity, narrative
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 800
- 830
- Verlag
- De Gruyter, Berlin; Boston
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- angenommene Version / Postprint / Autorenversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-364378
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 11.12.2019
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis