Sibling Incest and Cultural Voyeurism in Günderode's Udohla and Thomas Mann's Wälsungenblut

From: German Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Engelstein, Stefani | Copyright information

Christina von Braun has traced an intriguing reversal in the meaning of the word Blutschande over the course of the nineteenth century.1 While the ultimate disgrace to the blood originally referred to incest, i.e., to sexual relations between kin deemed too close, it had been transformed by the twentieth century into a shameful exogamy, a betrayal of the race through sexual relations with the "other, " and not just any other, but specifically with the Jewish other. Braun suggests that the tra...

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