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Bodily imagery abounds when we talk about collectives and those who live in them: a people can be "crippled" by a natural disaster, pronounced "healthy" after an economic upswing, beset by an "epidemic" of a new social woe. However, we lack a precise vocabulary to address the complexity of such embodied collectivity - namely, one that bridges metaphor and material in a way that reflects a range of lived experiences. In response to that need, Bodies of a People develops a framework from critical disability studies, crip theory, and performance studies to offer Volkskörper ("body of a people") to Anglophone scholarship on disability and performance. To do so, it first disentangles Volkskörper from its relatively recent history as a violently normative, singular "body of the people" and reclaims its longer history as a manifold, often crip and queer body that embraces vulnerability and diversity. Using that reframing, the book traces non-hegemonic Volkskörper in a selection of Germanophone plays and productions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By considering those performances of shared bodies, the book opens new ways to understand how people's bodies of all kinds arise, perform, rest, fail, and change. /

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually.

About the series editor:

Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Shereceived three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Bodily imagery abounds when we talk about collectives and those who live in them: a people can be "crippled" by a natural disaster, pronounced "healthy" after an economic upswing, beset by an "epidemic" of a new social woe. However, we lack a precise vocabulary to address the complexity of such embodied collectivity - namely, one that bridges metaphor and material in a way that reflects a range of lived experiences. In response to that need, Bodies of a People develops a framework from critical disability studies, crip theory, and performance studies to offer Volkskörper ("body of a people") to Anglophone scholarship on disability and performance. To do so, it first disentangles Volkskörper from its relatively recent history as a violently normative, singular "body of the people" and reclaims its longer history as a manifold, often crip and queer body that embraces vulnerability and diversity. Using that reframing, the book traces non-hegemonic Volkskörper in a selection of Germanophone plays and productions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By considering those performances of shared bodies, the book opens new ways to understand how people's bodies of all kinds arise, perform, rest, fail, and change. /

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually.

About the series editor:

Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Shereceived three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Zusammenfassung
Caroline Weist, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: VIII
332 S.
45 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9783112224229
ISBN-10: 3112224221
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Weist, Caroline
Hersteller: De Gruyter
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
Abbildungen: 45 ill.
Von/Mit: Caroline Weist
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2026
Gewicht: 0,429 kg
Artikel-ID: 135869923

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