Women Writing War

Katharina Von Hammerstein

ISBN 10: 3110569728 / ISBN 13: 9783110569728

Edité par De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information Aug 2018, 2018

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 348 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Women Writing War
• Éditeur: De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information Aug 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3110569728
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783110569728
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 160 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 673 grammes

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

K. v. Hammerstein, Uni of Connecticut, Storrs; B. Kosta, Uni of Arizona, Tucson; J. Shoults, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA.