Incorporations: Styling Women’s Identity and Political Oppression in the Novels of Herta Müller
Incorporations: Styling Women’s Identity and Political Oppression in the Novels of Herta Müller

Summary/Abstract: Although the 1980s marked the development of Herta Müller from an unknown Romanian-German author into the most prominent author of the Germanyspeaking community in Romania, she was relatively unknown to the West. Before achieving international fame after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009, in a report of a conference on women in Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe in 1994, Herta Müller, “the exiled Romanian/German writer,” was however first acknowledged on a grand scale as the person “who raised the active role of women in dictatorships.” This essay focuses on this acknowledgment that emphasizes first and foremost the important role women play in all of Muller’s works.

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