telegony

An obsolete misconception that the characteristics of one male could be passed to the progeny of a second male, if the latter’s offspring was borne by the sexual partner of the former.

References in periodicals archive

"Telegony: Procreation from a Distance: An Ignored or Suppressed Motif in Literature." Anglistik 11 (2000): 69-81.

Introduction

But, under conditions of war, the debate over telegony expressed a host of hidden fears about the German invasion.

As in so many other aspects of this debate, telegony and racialist language also voiced the fear of French male impotence.

If, as suggested, telegony also revealed the fear of masculine impotence, other evidence of a crisis of masculine identity tends to strengthen this argument.

The "child of the barbarian": rape, race and nationalism in France during the First World War

"Telegony: Procreation from a Distance: An Ignored or Suppressed Motif in Literature." Anglistik: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Anglistikverbandes 11 (2000): 69-81.

Bibliography of German narratology

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