Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “Most contributors consider the writing in sociohistorical contexts and demonstrate how the authors negotiate patriarchal structures. The book's strength and usefulness lie in this uniformity of approach and the amount of information provided.” · Choice
"Chapters on the four German-speaking countries provide a grand survey… the volume provides ample evidence that the absence of women from the German canon in the decades after the war is due not to their silence but to gender politics." · Times Literary Supplement
"A unique achievement." · Das Argument
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Reading Women's Writing: Feminist Critical Approaches
C. Weedon
Chapter 2. Women's Writing in Occupies Germany 1945-1949
F. Meyer
Chapter 3. Women's Writing in the 1950s and 1960s
F. Meyer
Chapter 4. The Early Novels of Ruth Rehmann
F. Meyer
Chapter 5. Women's Writing 1968-1980
C. Rapisarda
Chapter 6. Women's Writing of the 1980s and 1990s
M. Littler
Chapter 7. Original Differentiation: the Poetics of Anna Duden
J. Bossinade
Chapter 8. Searching for Intercultural Communication: Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a Turkish Woman Writer in Germany
I. Neubert
Chapter 9. Women Writers in the GDR 1945-1989
E. Kaufmann
Chapter 10. Development in East German Women's Writing since Autumn 1989
E. Kaufmann
Chapter 11. Reading Christa Wolf
C. Weedon
Chapter 12. Postwar Austrian Women Writers
A. Fiddler
Chapter 13. Reading Ingeborg Bachmann
E. Boa
Chapter 14. Reading Elfriede Jelinek
A. Fiddler
Chapter 15. Women's Writing in German-speaking Switzerland
C. Flitner
Afterword
C. Weedon
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
