Herges / Krimmer Contested Selves

Life Writing and German Culture
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80010-238-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 220, 280 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Döblin, Becher, women's WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and East German women's interview literatureto the autofiction of Lena Gorelik.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herges, Katja

Krimmer, Elisabeth

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hansen-Glücklich, Jennifer

Deiulio, Laura

Byram, Katra

Muellner, Beth Ann

Heiss, Lydia H.

Shoults, Julie

Burdock, Maureen

Müller, Matthias

Bademsoy, Aylin

Eichhorn, Kristin

Quinn, Erika

Sederberg, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Katja Herges and Elisabeth Krimmer

Part I. Women's Life Writing,
Female Subjectivity and Agency
1: "A Portrait of the Moment": Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Letters at the Boundary of Life Writing
Laura Deiulio
2: A Force of Nature: Narrative Strategies of Autobiography in the Work of Poet-Queen Carmen Sylva
Beth Ann Muellner
3: Writing the Cultural Memory of East Germany through Women's Interviewliteratur
Julie Shoults

Part II. Modern Life Writing and Aesthetics
4: A Life of Its Own: Alfred Döblin on Autobiography and the Novel
Matthias Müller
5: A Man of the Century in His Poems: Johannes R. Becher and the Creation of the Twentieth-Century Life Narrative
Kristin Eichhorn

Part III. Trauma and Vergangenheitsbewältigung
6: Writing Two Selves: A Woman's Struggle to Cope with War
Erika Quinn
7: "Confrontation with My Complicity": Paratextual Self-Encounters in Diaries of the Second World War
Kathryn Sederberg
8: Voices from an "Extinct Species": Narrative Responses to Trauma in German-Jewish Memoirs
Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich

Part IV. Transnational and Transgenerational
Life Writing in Contemporary Germany9: 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
Katra Byram
10: Lena Gorelik's Autofictional Letter Lieber Mischa: A Guide to Being Jewish in Contemporary Germany
Lydia H. Heiss
11: Shapeshifters: Metamorphosing Transgenerational Trauma through Comics
Maureen Burdock
12: Homeland, Nation, and Gender in the Life Writing of German and Jewish Émigrés
Aylin Bademsoy

Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Krimmer, Elisabeth
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.

Bademsoy, Aylin
Aylin Bademsoy is a PhD candidate in the German Department at UC Davis.

Burdock, Maureen
Maureen Burdock is an award-winning artist, writer, and teacher.

Herges, Katja
KATJA HERGES is a physician and holds a PhD in German from the University of California, Davis.

Herges Katja:
KATJA HERGES is a physician and holds a PhD in German from the University of California, Davis.Krimmer Elisabeth:
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.Deiulio Laura:
LAURA DEIULIO is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, VA.Burdock Maureen:
Maureen Burdock is an award-winning artist, writer, and teacher.Bademsoy Aylin:
Aylin Bademsoy is a PhD candidate in the German Department at UC Davis.