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Narrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitt

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01/2015
Author
Smith, Thomas
Keywords
Masculinity
Military
Gender
Dobberke
Fuchs
GDR
East Germany
Uniform
Narrative Theory
Literature
Film
German Literature
PN1993 Motion Pictures
D839 Post-war History, 1945 on
DD Germany
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Abstract
This article explores the relationship between body and uniform as one of two competing narratives of masculinity. Literature and film depicting the Nationale Volksarmee of East Germany (NVA) present uniform's narrative of ideal military masculinity in conflict with a second, apparently more natural narrative of masculinity written on the body. Claus Dobberke's 'Ein Katzensprung' (1976) and Jürgen Fuchs's 'Fassonschnitt' (1984) explore ways that the body might subvert the effects of uniform. Ultimately, however, these two works depict the uniform transforming body and psyche and unsettling existing narratives of masculinity, even disrupting the narrative text itself.
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Smith , T 2015 , ' Narrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitt ' , Modern Language Review , vol. 110 , no. 1 , pp. 204-221 . https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0204
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Modern Language Review
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0204
ISSN
0026-7937
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2015 Modern Humanities Research Association. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0204
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11781

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