Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- PART I THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS
- PART II THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- PART III THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- PART IV YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ
- 11 Yugoslavia and Iraq: overview
- 12 War and peace: Handke
- 13 War and the media: Jelinek
- 14 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - War and the media: Jelinek
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- PART I THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS
- PART II THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- PART III THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- PART IV YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ
- 11 Yugoslavia and Iraq: overview
- 12 War and peace: Handke
- 13 War and the media: Jelinek
- 14 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
CLOV: If I could kill him I'd die happy.
(Pause)
HAMM: What's the weather like?
CLOV: As usual.
(Beckett, Endgame)So is. Jetzt is Krieg und da gibts keine Würschtel.
Karl Kraus, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit
(That's it. It is war now, there's not going to be any fuss.)
In an essay entitled “Islam and Violence” (Islam und Gewalt), published in taz in December of 2001, the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek claims that the violence of 9/11 awakened in her a desire for violent revenge. She then expresses her determination to renounce this desire and support tolerance and freedom of religion. But she also declares her firm resolve to resist what she calls Islamic fascism – “Aber wer will mich daran hindern, dem islamischen Faschismus entgegenzutreten wie ich jedem Faschismus entgegentreten würde?” (But who wants to prevent me from opposing Islamic fascism just as I would oppose every kind of fascism) – and laments the lack of outspoken criticism of terrorism by Islamic leaders. In particular, Jelinek takes exception to the treatment of women: “immer immer die Gewalt gegen Frauen, die offenbar eines nie zu sühnenden Verbrechens schuldig sind, bloß weil sie überhaupt da sind, daher muß man sie verbergen, aber für Vergewaltigungen sind sie immer noch gut genug” (always always violence against women who are apparently guilty of a crime that can never be atoned, simply because they exist at all, therefore one has to hide them, but when it comes to rape they are still good enough).
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- The Representation of War in German LiteratureFrom 1800 to the Present, pp. 175 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010