Women Writing War: From German Colonialism through World War I

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

Women Writing War

From German Colonialism through World War I

Edited by: Katharina von Hammerstein , Barbara Kosta and Julie Shoults
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 24 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110572001

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Katharina von Hammerstein, University of Conneticut, Storrs, USA; Barbara Kosta, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA;Julie Shoults, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction. women writing war: from german colonialism through world war i Katharina von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta and Julie Shoults Open Access Download PDF	1
Representations of colonial conflicts
“who owns hereroland?”. diverse women’s perspectives on violence in the german-herero colonial war Katharina von Hammerstein Open Access Download PDF	27
Christian love and other weapons. the domestic heroine of the multiracial colonial mission “family” as an antiwar icon in hedwig irle’s mission memoirs Cindy Patey Brewer Open Access Download PDF	57
Girls, imperialism and war in women’s writing from the german-herero war and wwi Maureen O. Gallagher Open Access Download PDF	79
Views from the colonies on wwi
Woman on the edge of time. frieda schmidt and the great war in east africa Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst Open Access Download PDF	105
World war i in samoa as reported by frieda zieschank in the german colonial magazine kolonie und heimat Livia Rigotti Open Access Download PDF	123
Political perspectives on nationalism and wwi
Bertha von suttner’s die waffen nieder! and the gender of german pacifism Shelley E. Rose Open Access Download PDF	143
Ricarda huch’s first world war James M. Skidmore Open Access Download PDF	163
Hermynia zur mühlen. writing a socialist-feminist pacifism in the aftermath of wwi Julie Shoults Open Access Download PDF	181
Constructing the labor of war: girls, mothers and nurses
Girls reading the great war. german and anglo-american literature for young women, 1914–1920 Jennifer Redmann Open Access Download PDF	209
Käte kestien’s als die männer im graben lagen. wwi criticism through the lens of motherhood Cindy Walter-Gensler Open Access Download PDF	229
Three nurses’ life-writing. scrapbook, portrait, and construction of a self Margaret R. Higonnet Open Access Download PDF	247
Narratives of loss and grief in art and literature
Writing and reading death. german women’s novels of world war i Erika Quinn Open Access Download PDF	271
War widows’ dilemma. emotion, the myths of war and the search for selbständigkeit Erika Kuhlman Open Access Download PDF	289
Intimations of mortality from recollections of atrocity. käthe kollwitz and the art of mourning Martina Kolb Open Access Download PDF	305
Notes on authors Open Access Download PDF	329
Names index Open Access Download PDF	333

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of German Studies, History, War Studies, Human Rights Studies and Gender Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 339
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: German colonialism; World War I; women; German literature

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9783110572001

Hardcover

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9783110569728

Paperback

Published: September 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110763768