Post-war Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical ApproachesChris Weedon Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this broad-ranging collection, the first of its kind, examines the history of these writings in the context of the social and political developments in the respective countries. It combines survey chapters with detailed studies of prominent authors whose work is often unavailable in English. Chris Weedon is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff. |
Contents
Feminist Critical Approaches 924 | 9 |
The Federal Republic 19451990 | 25 |
Womens Writing in the 1950s and 1960s 4560 | 45 |
The Early Novels of Ruth Rehmann 6176 | 61 |
Womens Writing 19681980 77100 | 77 |
Womens Writing of the 1980s and 1990s 101129 | 101 |
The Poetics of Anne Duden 131151 | 131 |
The German Democratic Republic | 169 |
Developments in East German Womens Writing 211222 | 211 |
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