2025
Active Submission as a Form of Defense against Gender- Based Violence: Threats for Women Migrants in Amy Bloom’s Away
WEISS, MichaelaBasic information
Original name
Active Submission as a Form of Defense against Gender- Based Violence: Threats for Women Migrants in Amy Bloom’s Away
Authors
Edition
1. vyd. Hannover, Brutal Aspects of Migratory Aesthetics: Migration and Violence in Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics, p. 181-199, 19 pp. 2025
Publisher
ibidem
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
Germany
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
printed version "print"
Marked to be transferred to RIV
Yes
RIV identification code
RIV/47813059:19240/25:A0001502
Organization unit
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
ISBN
978-3-8382-1731-4
Keywords in English
active submission; journey narrative; violence; migration
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 28/11/2025 09:42, doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.
Abstract
In the original language
introduces the, originally zoological, concept of active submission into literary studies, exploring its potential to serve as a defense mechanism against various forms of violence. For the purposes of literary analysis, its meaning and functions shall be reinterpreted and extended, proposing a broader understanding of active submission, not only as a term denoting social behavior in animals, but encompassing a conscious response to violence, and, more specifically for the purpose of this study, gender-based vio- lence against women migrants as presented in Amy Bloom’s histor- ical novel Away (2007).