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- Title
The Miracle Workers: 'German Suffering', Israeli Masculinity, and the Feminised/Queered Nation as Redemptive in Eytan Fox's Walk On Water.
- Authors
Seidel-Arpacı, Annette
- Abstract
This chapter traces representations and constructions of transgenerationally suffering Germans, here as grandchildren of perpetrators, of German and Israeli identities, and of redemptive queerness in Walk On Water (Eytan Fox, Israel 2004). It discusses how notions of gendered/queered national identities and the search for redemptive narratives can intertwine in cultural production and (in)form perspectives on young Germans as a traumatised generation which has nevertheless acquired a different access to and sense of fluid gendered identities presented in star k contrast to Israeli nationalist hyper-masculinity. The chapter suggests that in Walk On Water the new 'Germanness' has to be feminised and queered in order to establish a redemptive narrative and the possibility for a common ground between Germans and Israelis after the Holocaust.
- Subjects
GERMANY; WALK on Water (Film); FOX, Eytan; MASCULINITY in motion pictures; NATIONALISM in motion pictures; MULTICULTURALISM
- Publication
German Monitor, 2011, Vol 73, Issue 1, p201
- ISSN
0927-1910
- Publication type
Article