Autobiography by Women in German

The Editors: Mererid Puw Davies (born in 1970) studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Hamburg University. She held a Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, before becoming Lecturer in German at University College, London. Her D.Phil. thesis explored the history of the tale of 'Bluebeard'. She has published on fairy tale, myth, and history in German literature.
Beth Linklater (born in 1967) studied German at Leeds, Lancaster and Halle and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on sexuality in East German literature. She is a Lecturer in German at the University of Wales Swansea and has published on East German literature and society and on women's writing.
Gisela Shaw (born in 1937) studied philosophy, and English, American and German literature at the Universities of Mainz, Bonn and Bath, and as a Fulbright scholar in the USA. Her Dr.phil. thesis was on Kantian philosophy and her M.Phil. on GDR literature.
From 1967 she has lived and worked in the UK, from 1996 as Professor of German Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She has published widely on, inter alia, contemporary German (especially East German) literature.

This varied and challenging collection of contributions written in German and English surveys a wide range of literature in German from a new perspective, namely that of autobiographical writing by women. In sixteen detailed analyses by an international team of scholars the volume explores theories of autobiographical writing and the heterogeneous ways in which texts by women from the Middle Ages onwards have used autobiographical material. The book addresses theoretical issues and thematic complexes as well as uncovering obscured texts and genres, providing both comparative and individual readings of texts as diverse as the spiritual writings of medieval nuns, diaries of the early modern period, and Holocaust memoirs. The book exposes and re-explores received ideas about women and the practice of autobiographical writing and, in doing so, redefines the terms of current debates in the field of autobiography. Beyond that field, it will appeal to those interested in the broader issues of writing by women, German literature and literary theory.

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Contents: Mererid Puw Davies: Introduction - Michaela Holdenried: Autobiographik von Frauen - eine eigene Geschichte? Anmerkungen zum Forschungsstand - Ben Morgan: The Spiritual Autobiographies of Visionary Nuns and their Dominican Confessors in Fourteenth-Century Germany - Charlotte Woodford: 'Wir haben nicht gewist / was wir vor angst und schrecken thun sollen': Autobiographical Writings by Two Nuns from the Thirty Years' War - Helga Meise: 'Wahr ich den gantzen Nachmittag betrübt': Trauer und Melancholie in der Diaristik von Frauen in der Frühen Neuzeit - Eva Kormann: Heterologe Subjektivität. Zur historischen Varianz von Autobiographie und Subjektivität - Angelika Linke: Sich das Leben erschreiben: Zur sprachlichen Rolleninszenierung bürgerlicher Frauen des 19. Jahrhunderts im Medium des Tagebuchs - Christina Ujma: Life as a Journey: Fanny Lewald's Autobiographical Travel Writing - Andrea Capovilla: Written on Water? Re-Reading the Autobiographies of Gina Klaus and Vicki Baum - Christiane Schönfeld: Confessional Narrative/Fragmented Identity: Emmy Henning's Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch - Helmut Peitsch: Remembering the Persecution of Jews in Autobiographical Texts by Women 1945-1949 - Birgit Dahlke: Tagebuch des Überlebens: Vergewaltigungen 1945 in ost- und westdeutschen Autobiographien - Gisela Shaw: 'Keine Chance, mich auf Distanz zu halten': Ruth Rehmann, the Reluctant Autobiographer - Maja Razbojnikova-Frateva: Der autobiographische Effekt des biographischen Erzählens: Zwei Frauen im Spiegel des Textes - Karen Leeder: 'Vom Unbehagen in der Einheit': Autobiographical Writing by Women Since 1989 - Carmel Finnan: Gendered Memory? Cordelia Edvardson's Gebranntes Kind sucht das Feuer and Ruth Klüger's weiter leben - Georgina Paul: 'Life-Writing': Reading the Work of Anne Duden Through Virginia Woolf's 'A Sketch of the Past'.