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  • Introduction: "A Portrait of the Moment": Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Letters at the Boundary of Life Writing; A Force of Nature: Narrative Strategies of Autobiography in the Work of Poet-Queen Carmen Sylva; Writing the Cultural Memory of East Germany through Women's Interviewliteratur; A Life of Its Own: Alfred Döblin on Autobiography and the Novel; A Man of the Century in His Poems: Johannes R. Becher and the Creation of the Twentieth-Century Life Narrative; Writing Two Selves: A Woman's Struggle to Cope with War; "Confrontation with My Complicity": Paratextual Self-Encounters in Diaries of the Second World War; Voices from an "Extinct Species:" Narrative Responses to Trauma in German-Jewish Memoirs; The Case of the Disappearing Son: Gender, Genre, and German Postwar Cultural Memory in Niklas Frank's Meine deutsche Mutter and F. C. Delius's Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau; Lena Gorelik's Autofictional Letter Lieber Mischa: A Guide to Being Jewish in Contemporary Germany; Shapeshifters: Metamorphosing Transgenerational Trauma through Comics; Homeland, Nation, and Gender in the Life Writing of German and Jewish Émigrés