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Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Herges / Krimmer Contested Selves


Life Writing and German Culture

E-Book, Englisch, Band 220, 280 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

ISBN: 978-1-80010-239-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Format: EPUB
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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.






In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide. But life writing is not only highly marketable; it also does important emotional, cultural, and political work. It is more available to amateurs and those without the cultural capital or the self-confidence to embrace more traditional literary forms, and thus gives voice to marginalized populations.
Contested Selves investigates various forms of German-language life writing, including memoirs, interviews, letters, diaries, and graphic novels, shedding light on its democratic potential, on its ability to personalize history and historicize the personal. The contributors ask how the various authors construct and negotiate notions of the self relative to sociopolitical contexts, cultural traditions, genre expectations, and narrative norms. They also investigate the nexus of writing, memory, and experience, including the genre's truth claims vis-à-vis the pliability and unreliability of human memories. Finally, they explore ethical questions that arise from intimate life writing and from the representation of "vulnerable subjects" as well as from the interrelation of material body, embodied self, and narrative. All forms of life writing discussed in this volume are invested in a process of making meaning and in an exchange of experience that allows us to relate our lives to the lives of others.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Herges, Katja
Krimmer, Elisabeth

Weitere Infos & Material

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

Burdock, Maureen
MAUREEN BURDOCK is a graphic storyteller, writer, and illustrator with dual master's degrees from the California School of the Arts and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis.

Deiulio, Laura
LAURA DEIULIO is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, VA.

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.

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

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