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Women without a Past?
German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism
Series: - GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture, Volume: 8
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Who remembers, and how? Debates about the role of memory as history â and of literature as memory â have increasingly come to fascinate those interested in how we look at our pasts as a means for understanding the present. Women without a Past? brings together for the first time autobiographies written by seven women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl, and Grete Weil. Their autobiographies provoke diverse and challenging answers to questions about who remembers what, when, where, how and on behalf of whom.
This book foregrounds the positive political potential of re-reading well-known texts and seeking out reasons why others have been marginalized. It examines autobiography as a form of writing at the very centre of contemporary debates on the âselfâ, âtruthâ and âhistoryâ. Women without a Past? offers new insights into the politics of memory and autobiography, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students engaging with womenâs writing and memories of Nazism.
This book foregrounds the positive political potential of re-reading well-known texts and seeking out reasons why others have been marginalized. It examines autobiography as a form of writing at the very centre of contemporary debates on the âselfâ, âtruthâ and âhistoryâ. Women without a Past? offers new insights into the politics of memory and autobiography, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students engaging with womenâs writing and memories of Nazism.
Introduction: Patterns of Remembering
1. Memories of a Survivor: The Story of Hilde Huppertâs Autobiographies
2. Competing Voices in Inge Schollâs Die WeiÃe Rose
3. Intoxicating Transience: Negotiations of Public and Private in Elisabeth Langgässerâs Published Letters
4. âOne Must Tear Aside the Flowersâ¦â: Melita Maschmannâs Fazit
5. Clarity and Insight: Greta Kuckhoffâs Memories of Resistance in Vom Rosenkranz zur Roten Kapelle
6. Und auÃerdem war es mein Leben: Subjectivity, Subjugation and Self-Justification in Elfriede Brüningâs
Autobiography
7. âTo Write against Forgettingâ: Grete Weilâs Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben
Conclusion
Works Cited
1. Memories of a Survivor: The Story of Hilde Huppertâs Autobiographies
2. Competing Voices in Inge Schollâs Die WeiÃe Rose
3. Intoxicating Transience: Negotiations of Public and Private in Elisabeth Langgässerâs Published Letters
4. âOne Must Tear Aside the Flowersâ¦â: Melita Maschmannâs Fazit
5. Clarity and Insight: Greta Kuckhoffâs Memories of Resistance in Vom Rosenkranz zur Roten Kapelle
6. Und auÃerdem war es mein Leben: Subjectivity, Subjugation and Self-Justification in Elfriede Brüningâs
Autobiography
7. âTo Write against Forgettingâ: Grete Weilâs Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben
Conclusion
Works Cited