Contested Selves : Life Writing and German Culture /: Life Writing and German Culture. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katja Herges, Jennifer Hansen-Glücklich, Katra Byram, Lydia H. Heiss, Maureen Burdock, Aylin Bademsoy, Elisabeth Krimmer, Laura Deiulio, Beth Ann Muellner, Julie Shoults, Matthias Müller, Kristin Eichhorn, Erika Quinn, Kathryn Sederberg.
• Editors: Herges, Katja; Krimmer, Elisabeth
• Other Names: Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer contributor.; Byram, Katra contributor.; Heiss, Lydia H contributor.; Burdock, Maureen contributor.; Bademsoy, Aylin contributor.; Deiulio, Laura contributor.; Muellner, Beth Ann contributor.; Shoults, Julie contributor.; Müller, Matthias contributor.; Eichhorn, Kristin contributor.; Quinn, Erika contributor.; Sederberg, Kathryn contributor.
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Rochester : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; Gender studies: women; Social & cultural history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800102385; 1800102380
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.