Women Writing War : From German Colonialism through World War I (Volume 24)

• Main Author: Katharina von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta, Julie Shoults, Katharina von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta, Julie Shoults
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Germany De Gruyter 2018; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Edition: 1
• Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Book Industry Communication; Colonies in literature; Gender studies, gender groups; German literature-19th century-History and criticism; German literature-20th century-History and criticism; German literature-Women authors-History and criticism; Germany-Colonies; History; History and Archaeology; Humanities; JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls; JFSJ1 Gender studies: women; Military; Military history; National characteristics, German, in literature; Social groups; Social groups, communities and identities; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Social sciences; Society & culture: general; Society & social sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR; Women's Studies; World War, 1914-1918-Germany-Literature and the war
• ISBN: 3110572001; 9783110572001; 3110571048; 9783110571042; 3110569728; 9783110569728

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.