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Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature - Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity (Hardcover)
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Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature - Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity (Hardcover)
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
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Investigates why the question of women's complicity in National
Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination,
examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the
role of women in the Third Reich In recent years, historians have
revealed the many ways in which German women supported National
Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well
as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however,
thewomen of the period are still predominantly depicted as the
victims of a violent twentieth century whose atrocities were
committed by men. They are frequently imagined as post hoc
redeemers of the nation, as the "rubble women" whospiritually and
literally rebuilt Germany. This book investigates why the question
of women's complicity in the Third Reich has struggled to capture
the historical imagination in the same way. It explores how female
authorsfrom across the political and generational spectrum
(Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elisabeth Plessen, Gisela Elsner,
Tanja Duckers, Jenny Erpenbeck) conceptualize the role of women in
the Third Reich. As well as offering innovative re-readings of
celebrated works, this book provides instructive interpretations of
lesser-known texts that nonetheless enrich our understanding of
German memory culture. Katherine Stone is Assistant Professor in
German Studies at the University of Warwick.
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