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Explore "ladyfiction" with insightful episodes like "Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature", "LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black", "LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names", "LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere" and "9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"" from podcasts like ""The Trans-Atlanticist", "The Trans-Atlanticist", "The Trans-Atlanticist", "The Trans-Atlanticist" and "The Trans-Atlanticist"" and more!

Episodes (7)

Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature

In light of the pending rollback of abortion rights by the US Supreme Court's conservative majority, Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Judith Rauscher turn to a world without men--as imagined in literary texts from the turn of the 20th century. Reading feminist utopias such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Mary E. Bardley's Mizora. A Prohpecy (1880/9), they discuss literary representations of an ideal same-sex state, whiteness, beauty standards, and the interlacing of progressivism and conservative views of womanhood in the US at a time when women fought for suffrage and civic equality.

The Trans-Atlanticist

enMay 26, 2022

LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black

With her guest Nele Sawallisch, Stefanie discusses Esi Edugyan's 2018 novel Washington Black. With Olaudah Equiano's 1789 autobiography as intertext, the novel entangles the adventure story with the slave narrative. As Washington Black travels from Barbados to the Arctic, from Virginia to London, his narrative asks about the (hi)stories that remain out of the light and the making of 19th century discoverer personas against the backdrop of gratuitous black labor.

The Trans-Atlanticist

enApril 05, 2022

LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names

This episode of LadyFiction discusses Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s “We Need New Names” (2013), a novel about a young girl who leaves behind her shantytown childhood to pursue her goals in America. The novel meditates on home, trauma, and childhood in a globalized world—and Stefanie Schäfer’s conversation partner is Oksana Marafioti, US-American writer of Armenian and Russian Romani descent and the author of “American Gypsy: A Memoir” (2012).

The Trans-Atlanticist

enJanuary 06, 2022

the trans-atlanticist

LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere

Do women have to choose between life as an artist and being a mother? That’s what the story boils (or burns!) down to in Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel (and in the eponymous Hulu Series) Little Fires Everywhere. In this episode, Stefanie Schäfer and her guest Julia Faisst discuss the implications and repercussions of this conflict—and on the side, they connect the abyss between itinerant freedom and the comforts of white settlement to the 2008 economic crisis, to adoption and white privilege, and to the iconicity of the American home in contemporary culture.

The Trans-Atlanticist

enNovember 18, 2021

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amerikazentrum

andrew sola

the trans-atlanticist

little fires everywhere

9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"

Marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Stefanie and her guest, Americanist Marius Henderson, discuss contemporary literature and the concept of American art after 9/11, touching on the affective turn, the New Sincerity, the Occupy Movement, and the aesthetics of sleep in the novel "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" (2018) by US novelist Ottessa Moshfegh.

The Trans-Atlanticist

enSeptember 16, 2021

my year of rest and relaxation

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ottessa moshfegh

the trans-atlanticist

marius henderson

LadyFiction #2: Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife

We celebrate Women's History Month with an episode about women and politics. In the second episode of LadyFiction Stefanie Schaefer discusses First Ladies and “First Lady Fiction” with her guest Dr. Katharina Gerund from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In January 2021, the arrival of new First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, an educator who has said she will keep working during her time in the White House, garnered renewed debate about marriage, politics, and modern womanhood. In this episode of LadyFiction, we turn to Curtis Sittenfeld’s bestselling novel American Wife (2008), a fictional autobiography of Laura Bush, First Lady from 2001-2009.

The Trans-Atlanticist

enMarch 18, 2021

the trans-atlanticist

LadyFiction#1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

The Trans-Atlanticist launches its second new podcast series called LadyFiction. In the first episode, our host Dr. Stefanie Schaefer and her guest Prof. Alexandra Ganser-both from the University of Vienna-discuss Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. February is African-American History Month, and these books were chosen because Butler's Earthseed series provide profound insights into black history and culture.

The Trans-Atlanticist

enFebruary 18, 2021

octavia butler

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alexandra ganser

the trans-atlanticist

stefanie schaefer

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Episodes (7)

Lady Fiction #13: Where Are the Men? Same-Sex Societies in American Literature

LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black

LadyFiction #3: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names

LadyFiction #9: The American Home in Flames: Art vs. Motherhood in Little Fires Everywhere

9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"

LadyFiction #2: Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife

LadyFiction#1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents