“Darkness, Waiting, Without Speaking”: Fluidity, Subjectivity, and Utopian Space in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Der Fall Franza

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Journal / Book Title

Utopian Studies

Abstract

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. This article takes the approach of cultural metaphor analysis to locate and describe the utopian metaphor of fluidity as it appears in the works of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Ingeborg Bachmann. The first stage of analysis consists in a theoretical description of fluidity, utopia, and the chora in works by Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. The article offers a new reading of utopian language and the metaphor of fluidity in Ingeborg Bachmann’s novelistic fragment Der Fall Franza.

DOI

10.5325/utopianstudies.27.1.0077

Published Citation

LaFountain, P. (2016). “Darkness, Waiting, Without Speaking”: Fluidity, Subjectivity, and Utopian Space in Ingeborg Bachmann's Der Fall Franza. Utopian Studies, 27(1), 77-92. doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.27.1.0077

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