Susan Sontag: Die Fruhen New Yorker Jahre
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ISBN10: 3161539362
ISBN13: 9783161539367
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: Feb 1 2016
Pages: 394
Weight: 2.03
Language: German
ISBN13: 9783161539367
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: Feb 1 2016
Pages: 394
Weight: 2.03
Language: German
English summary: Susan Sontag was an icon who went on the intellectual warpath with Zolas and Voltaire, intervening time and again in politics. But how did Susan Lee Rosenblatt, as she was born in January 1933, come to be the colourful figure of New York's cultural scene that she was? As a woman who loved other women and had arrived virtually penniless with her son in late 1950s New York, how did she manage to establish herself in its largely heterosexual male-dominated literary scene of the 60s? Stephan Isernhagen locates Sontag in the cultural field of the east coast city and argues that the issues she was occupied with, the stances she adopted and the channels she directed her art criticism along had influenced New York's cultural scene long before her arrival. He works out the connection between Sontag's homosexual self-awareness, art criticism and how strongly her work as one of history's most important female intellectuals was influenced by the powers-of-society's repeated declaration of homosexual experience's inferiority. German description: Susan Sontag (1933-2004) gilt als Ikone, als streitbare Intellektuelle in der Tradition Zolas und Voltaires, die immer wieder in der Politik intervenierte. Doch wie wurde sie, als Susan Lee Rosenblatt im Januar 1933 geboren, zur schillernden Figur des New Yorker Kulturbetriebs? Wie schaffte sie es als Frau, die Frauen liebte und mit ihrem Sohn fast mittellos Ende der 1950er Jahre nach New York gekommen war, sich in der von grosstenteils heterosexuellen Mannern dominierten literarischen Welt der 1960er Jahre durchzusetzen?Stephan Isernhagen verortet Sontag im kulturellen Feld New Yorks und argumentiert, dass Themen, die sie besetzte, Haltungen, die sie sich aneignete und Kategorien, an denen entlang sie ihre Kunstkritik ausrichtete, den Kulturbetrieb New Yorks lange vor ihrer Etablierung in der Ostkustenmetropole pragten. Er arbeitet den Zusammenhang zwischen Sontags Selbstwahrnehmung als Homosexuelle und ihrer Kunstkritik heraus und zeigt, wie stark die von gesellschaftlichen Autoritaten immer wieder festgestellte Minderwertigkeit der homosexuellen Erfahrung die Kunstkritik einer Frau, die als eine der wichtigsten weiblichen Intellektuellen in die Geschichte eingegangen ist, pragte.
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