Women writing war : : From German colonialism through World War I / / Katharina von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta, Julie Shoults.

Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 24.
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction. women writing war: from german colonialism through world war i / von Hammerstein, Katharina / Kosta, Barbara / Shoults, Julie
  • Representations of colonial conflicts
  • "who owns hereroland?". diverse women's perspectives on violence in the german-herero colonial war / von Hammerstein, Katharina
  • Christian love and other weapons. the domestic heroine of the multiracial colonial mission "family" as an antiwar icon in hedwig irle's mission memoirs / Brewer, Cindy Patey
  • Girls, imperialism and war in women's writing from the german-herero war and wwi / Gallagher, Maureen O.
  • Views from the colonies on wwi
  • Woman on the edge of time. frieda schmidt and the great war in east africa / Bechhaus-Gerst, Marianne
  • World war i in samoa as reported by frieda zieschank in the german colonial magazine kolonie und heimat / Rigotti, Livia
  • Political perspectives on nationalism and wwi
  • Bertha von suttner's die waffen nieder! and the gender of german pacifism / Rose, Shelley E.
  • Ricarda huch's first world war / Skidmore, James M.
  • Hermynia zur mühlen. writing a socialist-feminist pacifism in the aftermath of wwi / Shoults, Julie
  • Constructing the labor of war: girls, mothers and nurses
  • Girls reading the great war. german and anglo-american literature for young women, 1914-1920 / Redmann, Jennifer
  • Käte kestien's als die männer im graben lagen. wwi criticism through the lens of motherhood / Walter-Gensler, Cindy
  • Three nurses' life-writing. scrapbook, portrait, and construction of a self / Higonnet, Margaret R.
  • Narratives of loss and grief in art and literature
  • Writing and reading death. german women's novels of world war i / Quinn, Erika
  • War widows' dilemma. emotion, the myths of war and the search for selbständigkeit / Kuhlman, Erika
  • Intimations of mortality from recollections of atrocity. käthe kollwitz and the art of mourning / Kolb, Martina
  • Notes on authors
  • Names index