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- Title
The Education of Desire: Unsettling Sexuality, Gender, and Racial Politics in Contemporary Medical Romance.
- Authors
Herges, Katja
- 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.
- Subjects
GERMANY; EDUCATION; RACISM; GENDER identity; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Seminar -- A Journal of Germanic Studies, 2023, Vol 59, Issue 3, p282
- ISSN
0037-1939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/seminar.59.3.4