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Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted
from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include
narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand
scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light
on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who
contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war
efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their
nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the
tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an
interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select
female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial
wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued
their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to
a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that
eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a
Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from
German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods
into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection
of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical
continuities and disruptions that shape such events.
Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted
from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include
narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand
scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light
on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who
contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war
efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their
nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the
tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an
interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select
female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial
wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued
their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to
a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that
eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a
Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from
German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods
into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection
of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical
continuities and disruptions that shape such events.
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