List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Elke P. Frederiksen and Martha Kaarsberg Wallacch
Part I. Experiencing the Holocaust
1. Growing Up in the Eye of the Firestorm: A Jewish Childhood under the Nazis
Ruth Kluger
Part II. From Weimar to National Socialism
2. The Primitive and the Modern: Gottfried Benna and Else Lasker-Schüler
Gisela Brinker-Gabler
3. "This Number Is Not in Service:" Destabilizing Identities in Irmgard Keun's Novels from Weimar and Exile
Ritta Jo Horsley
4. Victims or Perpetrators? Literary Responces to Women's Roles in National Socialism
Elaine Martin
Part III. Individual Women's Voices against Fascism
5. Literary Antifascim: Anna Seghers's Exile Writings 1936 to1949
Gertraud Gutzmann
6. Turning the Gaze Inward: Gertrud Kolmar's Briefe an die Schwester Hilde 1938-1943
Monika Shafi
7. Reconstructing Mother--The Myth and the Real: Autobiographical Texts by Elisabeth Langgässer and Cordelia Edvardson
Helga Kraft
8. At Home in Exile--Nelly Sachs: Flight and Metamorphosis
Ruth Dinesen
Part IV. Exile and the Holocaust
9. Echoes of Exile: The Literary Response to the Exiles by American Women Writers
Guy Stern
10. The Interchange between Experience and Literature: German-Jewish Women Writers of the Holocaust
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Part V. Women's Voices after 1945
11. Luise Rinser: Dialogues with the Past? The Problem of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Coming to Terms with the Past)
Elke P. Frederiksen
12. Ingeborg Drewitz: Three Generations of Women Respond to Fascism
Margaret E. Ward
13. Fact, Fantasy, and Female Subjectivity: Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood
Robert C. Holub
14. Grete Weil: A Jewish Antigone
Elke Liebs
15. Gender, Film, and German History: Filmmaking by German Women Directors from Weimar to the Present
Richard W. McCormick
Part VI. German Women after Unification (1989)
16. A Look at the Current Situation of Women in Germany
Renate Möhrmann
Part VII. Conclusion
17. New Scholarly Perspectives
Sara Lennox
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index