| Description |
1 online resource (381 pages) |
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Genus--gender in modern culture, 1568-1602 ; 8 |
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Genus--gender in modern culture ; 8. 1568-1602
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| Contents |
Patterns of remembering -- Memories of a survivor : the story of Hilde Huppert's autobiographies -- Competing voices in Inge Scholl's Die Weisse Rose -- Intoxicating transience : negotiations of public and private in Elisabeth Langgässer's published letters -- "One must tear aside the flowers" : Melita Maschmann's Fazit -- Clarity and insight : Greta Kuckhoff's memories of resistance in Vom Rosenkranz zur Roten Kapelle -- Und ausserdem war es mein Leben : subjectivity, subjugation, and self-justification in Elfriede Brüning's autobiography -- "To write against forgetting" : Grete Weil's Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben |
| Summary |
Who remembers, and how? Debates about the role of memory as history - and of literature as memory - have increasingly come to fascinate those interested in how we look at our pasts as a means for understanding the present. Women without a Past? brings together for the first time autobiographies written by seven women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl, and Grete Weil. Their autobiographies provoke diverse and challenging answers to questions about who remembers what, when, whe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-381) |
| Subject |
Women authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Autobiographical memory in literature -- History and criticism
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National socialism and women -- Germany -- Historiography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Autobiographical memory in literature
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Autobiografie
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Nationalsozialismus
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Frauenliteratur
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Germany
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Deutsch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435612532 |
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1435612531 |
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9789401204590 |
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9401204594 |
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9042022280 |
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9789042022287 |
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