Notes on the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Women’s Life Writing, Female Subjectivity and Agency
6. 1: “A Portrait of the Moment”: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Letters at the Boundary of Life Writing 31
7. 2: A Force of Nature: Narrative Strategies of Autobiography in the Work of Poet-Queen Carmen Sylva 51
8. 3: Writing the Cultural Memory of East Germany through Women’s Interviewliteratur 73
9. Part II. Modern Life Writing and Aesthetics
10. 4: A Life of Its Own: Alfred Döblin on Autobiography and the Novel 93
11. 5: A Man of the Century in His Poems: Johannes R. Becher and the Creation of the Twentieth-Century Life Narrative 115
12. Part III. Trauma and Vergangenheitsbewältigung
13. 6: Writing Two Selves: A Woman’s Struggle to Cope with War 129
14. 7: “Confrontation with My Complicity”: Paratextual Self-Encounters in Diaries of the Second World War 147
15. 8: Voices from an “Extinct Species”: Narrative Responses to Trauma in German Jewish Memoirs 167
16. Part IV. Transnational and Transgenerational Life Writing in Contemporary Germany
17. 9: The Case of the Disappearing Son: Gender, Genre, and German Postwar Cultural Memory in Niklas Frank’s Meine deutsche Mutter and F. C. Delius’s Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau 189
18. 10: Lena Gorelik’s Autofictional Letter Lieber Mischa: A Guide to Being Jewish in Contemporary Germany 205
19. 11: Shapeshifters: Metamorphosing Transgenerational Trauma through Comics 229
20. 12: Homeland, Nation, and Gender in the Life Writing of German and Jewish Émigrés 248
21. Bibliography 271
22. Notes on the Contributors 297
23. Index 301