Der Strand: What to wear on the beach / Was am Strand anziehen?

Vinken, Barbara (2020): Der Strand: What to wear on the beach / Was am Strand anziehen? In: Breidenbach, Carina; Fröhler, Tamara; Pensel, Dominik; Simon, Katharina; Telsnig, Florian und Wittmann, Martin (Hrsg.): Narrating and constructing the beach : An interdisciplinary approach. spectrum Literaturwissenschaft, Bd. 68. Berlin: De Gruyter. S. 448-462

Abstract

The image of a Muslim woman, forced by the police to take off her long-sleeve top in the summer of 2016, the burkini and subsequent discussions show that beachwear has become political again. What one wears at the beach and how one presents one’s body expresses the relationship between body and shame. The discourse around the beach, characterized by the polarity between clothes unto life and clothes unto death, between deadly waters and the nudity of passion, on the one hand, and sweet waters of life, on the other, comes to the fore in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie and in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest. The ‘beach body’ in its nudity functions as a cipher for the establishment of the new man, the recovery of paradisiac innocence, and not as a shameful body fallen into desire, sexual difference and death.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 2 > Romanische Philologie
• Themengebiete: 800 Literatur > 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN: 978-3-11-067224-4
• Ort: Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch