TY - JOUR AU - Kanz, Christine PY - 2011/10/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - EX-CORPORATION: ON MALE BIRTH FANTASIES JF - Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies JA - Imaginations VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.17742/IMAGE.crypt.2-1.6 UR - https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/article/view/27197 SP - 53-67 AB - <p>Between 1890 and 1933, male birth fantasies became a<br />widespread phenomenon in European culture. One of<br />the key examples of male birth fantasies is Filippo Tommaso<br />Marinetti’s “African” novel Mafarka the Futurist.<br />The novel’s protagonist, Mafarka, gives birth to a child<br />by his will power and by drawing on diverse formations<br />of knowledge, from alchemy to theories of evolution. In<br />addition to the consideration given the psycho-historical,<br />cultural, and scientific contexts of male birth fantasies<br />in the avant-garde, the contribution reflects on sibling<br />encryptment within the relationship to the mother<br />as one more aspect of a span of genealogy one might<br />term “Maternal Modernity.”<br />Christine Kanz is Professor of German Literature at<br />Ghent University in Belgium. Her contribution refers<br />to her 2009 book Maternale Moderne. Männliche Gebärphantasien<br />zwischen Kultur und Wissenschaft, 1890-<br />1933. In addition she edited several collections and<br />authored another book on Ingeborg Bachmann, and<br />numerous articles and reviews in the area of interdisciplinary<br />studies.<br />Before entering the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe,<br />class of Daniel Roth, in 2008, Adam Cmiel trained in<br />various media in Bad Dürkheim, Hamburg, Mannheim,<br />and Trier. He has participated in nine exhibitions since<br />the onset of his studies in Karlsruhe.</p> ER -