Lustmord : sexual murder in Weimar Germany
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Lustmord : sexual murder in Weimar Germany
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1997, c1995
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Includes bibliographical notes (p. [185]-208) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place--both artistically and socially--in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder (Lustmord), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression.
Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers--George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife--but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. In exploring the complex relationship between victim and agent in cases of sexual murder, Tatar explains how the roles came to be destabilized and reversed, turning the perpetrator of criminal deeds into a defenseless victim of seductive evil. Throughout the West today, the creation of similar ideological constructions still occurs in societies that have only recently begun to validate the voices of its victims.
Maria Tatar's book opens up an important discussion for readers seeking to understand the forces behind sexual violence and its portrayal in the cultural media throughout this century.
目次
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPt. 1Sexual Murder: Weimar Germany and Its Cultural LegacyCh. 1Morbid Curiosity: Why Lustmord?3Ch. 2"Ask Mother": The Construction of Sexual Murder20Ch. 3Crime, Contagion, and Containment: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic41Pt. 2Case StudiesCh. 4Fighting for Life: Figurations of War, Women, and the City in the Work of Otto Dix68Ch. 5Life in the Combat Zone: Military and Sexual Anxieties in the Work of George Grosz98Ch. 6The Corpse Vanishes: Gender, Violence, and Agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz132Ch. 7The Killer as Victim: Fritz Lang's M153Ch. 8Reinventions: Murder in the Name of Art173Notes185Index209
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