Women without a past? : : German autobiographical writings and fascism / / Joanne Sayner.

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 wri...

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Superior document:Genus--gender in modern culture, 8
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited.