Notes on authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. women writing war: from german colonialism through world war i 1
4. Representations of colonial conflicts
5. “who owns hereroland?”. diverse women’s perspectives on violence in the german-herero colonial war 27
6. Christian love and other weapons. the domestic heroine of the multiracial colonial mission “family” as an antiwar icon in hedwig irle’s mission memoirs 57
7. Girls, imperialism and war in women’s writing from the german-herero war and wwi 79
8. Views from the colonies on wwi
9. Woman on the edge of time. frieda schmidt and the great war in east africa 105
10. World war i in samoa as reported by frieda zieschank in the german colonial magazine kolonie und heimat 123
11. Political perspectives on nationalism and wwi
12. Bertha von suttner’s die waffen nieder! and the gender of german pacifism 143
13. Ricarda huch’s first world war 163
14. Hermynia zur mühlen. writing a socialist-feminist pacifism in the aftermath of wwi 181
15. Constructing the labor of war: girls, mothers and nurses
16. Girls reading the great war. german and anglo-american literature for young women, 1914–1920 209
17. Käte kestien’s als die männer im graben lagen. wwi criticism through the lens of motherhood 229
18. Three nurses’ life-writing. scrapbook, portrait, and construction of a self 247
19. Narratives of loss and grief in art and literature
20. Writing and reading death. german women’s novels of world war i 271
21. War widows’ dilemma. emotion, the myths of war and the search for selbständigkeit 289
22. Intimations of mortality from recollections of atrocity. käthe kollwitz and the art of mourning 305
23. Notes on authors 329
24. Names index 333