German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust

Complicity and Gender in the Second World War

AvElisabeth Krimmer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between gender, genocide, and female agency, the analyzes correct androcentric views of the Second World War and seek to further our understanding of a group that, although crucial to the functioning of the National Socialist regime, has often been overlooked: that of the complicit bystander. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, female refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors analyze women's motivations for enlisting in the National Socialist cause, as well as for their continuing support for the regime and, in some cases, their growing estrangement from it. The readings allow insights into the nature of complicity itself, the emergence of violence in civil society, and the possibility of social justice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-20
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:550 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108472821

Utforska kategorier

Andra världskriget inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Her previous publications include: Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe (2013); Enlightened War: Theories and Cultures of Warfare in Eighteenth-Century Germany (2011); The Representation of War in German Literature: From 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2010); In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women around 1800 (2004), Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens and TV Heroines: Contemporary Screen Images of Women (2004) and Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre and Politics (2011).

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'Elisabeth Krimmer's excellent study draws on memoirs and fiction to enrich our understanding of women's widespread involvement in the Third Reich and the Second World War … this comprehensive and thought-provoking study provides new impulses for research into the still undertheorized matter of complicity.' Katherine Stone, The Modern Language Review

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: gender, war and the Holocaust; 2. Ruptured narratives: German women and Hitler's army; 3. Cropped vision: nursing in the Second World War; 4. Interrupted silences: German victims of rape; 5. Parallel stories: women refugees; 6. A view from the outside in: Jewish women and German complicity; Conclusion; Bibliography.