Backfischroman

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As backfischroman refers to a genre of children's literature and especially the branch of girls literature that describes the growth of a girl and it caters mainly to girls aged between 12 and 16 years as readers. The name is derived from the now outdated name Backfisch for girls in puberty . The term is mainly used for stories that were written around the period between 1850 and 1950. They generally represent a predominantly stereotypical, traditional image of society and women. Often the integration of an adolescent into the fixed norms of their environment is described. Many of these books end in marriage; the heroine becomes a housewife and gives up her (possibly previously existing) professional ambitions. In today's usage, however, the name has been replaced by a girl 's book.

The classic among the Backfisch novels is The Defiant Head by Emmy von Rhoden . Other well-known representatives of the Backfischromane are the works of Magda Trott and Henny Koch , as well as the books by Else Ury , whose series of children's books Nesthäkchen is still published today.

literature

  • Gisela Wilkending: Girls' literature from the imperial era: between female identification and crossing borders . Metzler 2003, ISBN 9783476019639
  • Hadassah Stichnothe: Love, War and Summer Vacation. A historical overview of the female adolescence novel . Der Deutschunterricht, 68th Vol., H. 2 (2016), pp. 14–26
  • Girls' literature . In: Friederike Ursula Eigler, Susanne Kord: The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature . Greenwood, 1997, ISBN 0313293139 , pp. 293–294 ( excerpt (Google) )
  • Jennifer Drake Askey: Good Girls, Good Germans: Girls' Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany . Camden House (Boydell & Brewer) 2013, pp. 103-141 (Chapter "Girls' Literature I - Backfischbücher and Historical Novels")
  • David Ehrenpreis: The Figure of the Backfisch: Representing Puberty in Wilhelmine Germany . Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 67th Vol., H. 4 (2004), pp. 479–508 ( JSTOR )
  • Elizabeth Harvey: Private Fantasy and Public Intervention: Girls' Reading in Weimar Germany . In: Jennifer Birkett (Ed.), Elizabeth Harvey (Ed.): Determined Women: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900–90 . Springer 1991, ISBN 9781349212927 , pp. 38-67