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Writing rape, troping history : story, plot, and ethical reading in Julia Franck's 'Die Mittagsfrau' (2007)

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Stone, Katherine (2018) Writing rape, troping history : story, plot, and ethical reading in Julia Franck's 'Die Mittagsfrau' (2007). German Quarterly, 91 (2). pp. 153-169. doi:10.1111/gequ.12065 ISSN 0016-8831.

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Abstract

This article examines the rhetorical function of sexual violence in Julia Franck’s novel 'Die Mittagsfrau' (2007), which unflinchingly relates the degradations to which the protagonist is subjected from infancy: sexual exploitation by her sister; psychological abuse at the hands of her mother; sexual harassment by a family friend; abuse by her eventual husband; marginalization as a “Mischling” in the Third Reich; gang rape by Soviet soldiers. Franck extensively and graphically describes individual episodes of sexual harrassment within chapters that span several years. This narrative excess warrants a “hysterical reading” that magnifies textual details in order to demonstrate the link between representations of sexual violence and wider patterns of structural and symbolic violence. The gaps and tensions that emerge as the narrative shifts between the mimetic and tropological levels provide the basis for a broader exploration of the ethics of reading and the ethics of representing sexual violence more generally.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Franck, Julia -- Criticism and interpretation, Rape in literature -- Germany
Journal or Publication Title: German Quarterly
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
ISSN: 0016-8831
Official Date: 23 April 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
23 April 2018Published
8 January 2018Accepted
11 July 2017Submitted
Volume: 91
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 153-169
DOI: 10.1111/gequ.12065
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 27 March 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 23 April 2020
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
IRC/GOIPD/2015/221Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Scienceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001597
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