Women writing war : from German colonialism through World War I /

"How have women experienced and written about war? The centennial of World War I and renewed interest in the devastating German colonial conflicts inspire us to revisit both well-known and rare texts written by German-speaking women about these violent struggles. This volume examines narratives...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Von Hammerstein, Katharina (Editor ), Kosta, Barbara (Editor ), Shoults, Julie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Colección:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 24.
Temas:
1800-1999
German literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 > Germany > Literature and the war.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, German, in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Littérature allemande > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature allemande > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Colonies dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
War and literature
National characteristics, German, in literature
German literature
German colonies
Colonies in literature
German literature > Women authors
Germany > Colonies.
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : women writing war : from German colonialism through World War I / Katharina von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta, Julie Shoults
  • Representations of colonial conflicts. "Who owns Hereroland?" : diverse women's perspectives on violence in the German-Herero colonial war / Katharina von Hammerstein
  • Christian love and other weapons : the domestic heroine of the multiracial colonial mission "family" as an antiwar icon in Hedwig Irle's mission memoirs / Cindy Patey Brewer
  • Girls, imperialism and war in women's writing from the German-Herero war and WWI / Maureen O. Gallagher
  • Views from the colonies on WWI.
  • Woman on the edge of time : Frieda Schmidt and the Great War in East Africa / Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
  • World War I in Samoa as reported by Frieda Zieschank in the German colonial magazine Kolonie und Heimat / Livia Rigotti
  • Political perspectives on nationalism and WWI. Bertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! and the gender of German pacifism / Shelley E. Rose
  • Ricarda Huch's First World War / James M. Skidmore
  • Hermynia Zur Mühlen : writing a socialist-feminist pacifism in the aftermath of WWI / Julie Shoults
  • Constructing the labor of war : girls, mothers and nurses. Girls reading the Great War : German and Anglo-American literature for young women, 1914-1920 / Jennifer Redmann
  • Käte Kestien's Als die Männer im Graben lagen : WWI criticism through the lens of motherhood / Cindy Walter-Gensler
  • Three nurses' life-writing : scrapbook, portrait, and construction of a self / Margaret R. Higonnet
  • Narratives of loss and grief in art and literature. Writing and reading death : German women's novels of World War I / Erika Quinn
  • War widows' dilemma : emotion, the myths of war and the search for Selbständigkeit / Erika Kuhlman
  • Intimations of mortality from recollections of atrocity : Käthe Kollwitz and the art of mourning / Martina Kolb
  • Notes on authors
  • Names index.

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