Post-war women's writing in German : feminist critical approaches / edited by Chris Weedon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weedon, Chris, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Europe, German-speaking.

Women and literature.

Feminism and literature--Europe, German-speaking.

Feminism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : Berghahn Books, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this broad-ranging collection, the first of its kind, examines the history of these writings in the context of the social and political developments in the respective countries. It combines survey chapters with detailed studies of prominent authors whose work is often unavailable in English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Part I

1. Introduction

2. Reading Women’s Writing: Feminist Critical Approaches

Part II: The Federal Republic, 1945–1990

3. Women’s Writing in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949

4. Women’s Writing in the 1950s and 1960s

5. The Early Novels of Ruth Rehmann

6. Women’s Writing, 1968–1980

7. Women’s Writing of the 1980s and 1990s

8. Original Differentiation: The Poetics of Anne Duden

9. Searching for Intercultural Communication: Emine Sevgi Özdamar – A Turkish Woman Writer in Germany

Part III: The German Democratic Republic

10. Women Writers in the GDR, 1945–1989

11. Developments in East German Women’s Writing Since Autumn 1989

12. Reading Christa Wolf

Part IV: Austria

13. Post-war Austrian Women Writers

14. Reading Ingeborg Bachmann

15. Reading Elfriede Jelinek

Part V: Switzerland

16. Women’s Writing in German-Speaking Switzerland: Engaging with Tradition – Eveline Hasler and Gertrud Leutenegger

Afterword

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

A study of women's writing in the Federal Republic, the German Democratic Republic, Austria and Switzerland, 1945-1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-353) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80073-409-3

1-57181-048-X

1-57181-902-9

OCLC:

1289275684