1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Reading Women’s Writing: Feminist Critical Approaches 9
7. Part II: The Federal Republic, 1945–1990
8. 3. Women’s Writing in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949 25
9. 4. Women’s Writing in the 1950s and 1960s 45
10. 5. The Early Novels of Ruth Rehmann 61
11. 6. Women’s Writing, 1968–1980 77
12. 7. Women’s Writing of the 1980s and 1990s 101
13. 8. Original Differentiation: The Poetics of Anne Duden 131
14. 9. Searching for Intercultural Communication: Emine Sevgi Özdamar – A Turkish Woman Writer in Germany 153
15. Part III: The German Democratic Republic
16. 10. Women Writers in the GDR, 1945–1989 169
17. 11. Developments in East German Women’s Writing Since Autumn 1989 211
18. 12. Reading Christa Wolf 223
19. Part IV: Austria
20. 13. Post-war Austrian Women Writers 243
21. 14. Reading Ingeborg Bachmann 269
22. 15. Reading Elfriede Jelinek 291
23. Part V: Switzerland
24. 16. Women’s Writing in German-Speaking Switzerland: Engaging with Tradition – Eveline Hasler and Gertrud Leutenegger 305
25. Afterword 327
26. Notes on Contributors 329
27. Bibliography 331
28. Index 354