"How have women experienced and written about war? The centennial of World War I and renewed interest in the devastating German colonial conflicts inspire us to revisit both well-known and rare texts written by German-speaking women about these violent struggles. This volume examines narratives of war beyond the arenas of combat and deepens our understanding of the gendered experience of war as it intersects with issues of race, class and nation." -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction. women writing war: from german colonialism through world war i / von Hammerstein, Katharina / Kosta, Barbara / Shoults, Julie -- Representations of colonial conflicts -- "who owns hereroland?". diverse women's perspectives on violence in the german-herero colonial war / von Hammerstein, Katharina -- Christian love and other weapons. the domestic heroine of the multiracial colonial mission "family" as an antiwar icon in hedwig irle's mission memoirs / Brewer, Cindy Patey -- Girls, imperialism and war in women's writing from the german-herero war and wwi / Gallagher, Maureen O. -- Views from the colonies on wwi -- Woman on the edge of time. frieda schmidt and the great war in east africa / Bechhaus-Gerst, Marianne -- World war i in samoa as reported by frieda zieschank in the german colonial magazine kolonie und heimat / Rigotti, Livia -- Political perspectives on nationalism and wwi -- Bertha von suttner's die waffen nieder! and the gender of german pacifism / Rose, Shelley E. -- Ricarda huch's first world war / Skidmore, James M. -- Hermynia zur mühlen. writing a socialist-feminist pacifism in the aftermath of wwi / Shoults, Julie -- Constructing the labor of war: girls, mothers and nurses -- Girls reading the great war. german and anglo-american literature for young women, 1914-1920 / Redmann, Jennifer -- Käte kestien's als die männer im graben lagen. wwi criticism through the lens of motherhood / Walter-Gensler, Cindy -- Three nurses' life-writing. scrapbook, portrait, and construction of a self / Higonnet, Margaret R. -- Narratives of loss and grief in art and literature -- Writing and reading death. german women's novels of world war i / Quinn, Erika -- War widows' dilemma. emotion, the myths of war and the search for selbständigkeit / Kuhlman, Erika -- Intimations of mortality from recollections of atrocity. käthe kollwitz and the art of mourning / Kolb, Martina -- Notes on authors -- Names index

In English.

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