The Education of Desire: Unsettling Sexuality, Gender, and Racial Politics in Contemporary Medical Romance

IF 0.5 4区文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN

SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.3138/seminar.59.3.4

Katja Herges

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Abstract

Medical romance features health care heroes and heroines in a central love story. This article analyzes two contemporary literary examples of the popular but neglected genre of German medical romance, Julya Rabinowich’s Herznovelle (2011) and Irena Brežná’s Schuppenhaut: Ein Liebesroman (2010). This article argues that medical romance performs agile cultural work that ambivalently locates discourses of desire, race, and gender within popular, literary, and medical cultures. Through a range of literary and autofictional strategies, both works reveal how medical romance can reflect and produce bourgeois sexuality and whiteness in contemporary culture. Foregrounding their narrators’ appropriation of colonial imagery, I show that Herznovelle and Schuppenhaut open up critical questions about approaches to decolonization in German studies and medical culture.

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欲望的教育:当代医学浪漫中令人不安的性、性别和种族政治

《医疗罗曼史》以医疗保健的男女主人公为中心，讲述了一个爱情故事。本文分析了两个流行但被忽视的德国医学浪漫文学的当代文学例子，朱莉娅·拉宾诺维奇的《赫茨novelle》(2011)和伊琳娜Brežná的《舒本豪:爱的爱情》(2010)。本文认为，医学罗曼史进行了灵活的文化工作，在流行文化、文学文化和医学文化中矛盾地定位了欲望、种族和性别的话语。通过一系列文学和自传体的策略，两部作品都揭示了医学浪漫如何反映和产生当代文化中的资产阶级性和白人性。我突出了叙述者对殖民意象的挪用，表明赫兹诺维尔和舒本豪在德国研究和医学文化中开辟了关于非殖民化方法的关键问题。

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SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN-

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期刊介绍： The first issue of Seminar appeared in the Spring of 1965, sponsored jointly by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Section of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA). This collaborative sponsorship has continued to the present day, with the Journal essentially a Canadian scholarly journal, its Editors all Canadian, likewise its publisher, and managerial and editorial decisions taken by the Editor and/or the Canadian Editorial Committee,the Australasian Associate Editor being responsible for the selection of articles submitted from that area.