Hybrid Hydra-Heads

Ondertitel:Friederike Mayröcker versus Lucienne Stassaert

In this chapter we present Friederike Mayröcker and Lucienne Stassaert, both of whom are considered to be the main women writers with a distinct profile in their respective experimental contexts during the 1960s. This chapter wants to explore how, if at all, this shared exceptional gender related status is reflected in their self-positioning and poetics. What was their relationship with their respective male dominated artistic environments like? How did their artistic practice take shape? As we will show, both authors share(d) a preference for Einzelgängertum [going it alone] and volatility in their literary self-positioning, with a similar evolution towards less explicit experimentalism around 1970. Their concrete literary practice of the late 1960s, however, diverges greatly. Related though they are regarding their position in the literary field, their texts demonstrate that this does not lead up to a uniform gendered poetics. Biographically too, differences come to the fore, especially concerning the generations they belong to, as well as the national and institutional context they grew up in, as the following paragraphs will make clear.

ISBN:9781781884010

Jaar van publicatie:2020

Trefwoorden:Literary studies