KATHERINE STONE is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Stone's . . . arguments effortlessly weave together a vast amount of scholarship and theory on gender, memory, and literature. Her writing is clear, efficient, and elegant. In short, this outstanding book is a Corrective for the tendency to reduce the history of Nazi Germany to the binaries of male/oppressor-female/victim. It is a must-read for scholars of post-1933 Germany and for feminist scholars, regardless of their area of focus.

• IntroductionThe Gender of Good and Evil: Guilt and Repression in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (1971)Matriarchal Morality: Women and Hope in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster (1976)Patriarchal Authority and Fascism Past and Present: Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel (1976)The Blessing of a Late, Female Birth: Gisela Elsner's Fliegeralarm (1989)Uncanny Legacies: Gender and Guilt in Tanja Dückers' Himmelskörper (2003)The Dialectic of Vulnerability and Responsibility: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung (2007)EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

KATHERINE STONE is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Stone's . . . arguments effortlessly weave together a vast amount of scholarship and theory on gender, memory, and literature. Her writing is clear, efficient, and elegant. In short, this outstanding book is a Corrective for the tendency to reduce the history of Nazi Germany to the binaries of male/oppressor-female/victim. It is a must-read for scholars of post-1933 Germany and for feminist scholars, regardless of their area of focus.

• IntroductionThe Gender of Good and Evil: Guilt and Repression in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (1971)Matriarchal Morality: Women and Hope in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster (1976)Patriarchal Authority and Fascism Past and Present: Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel (1976)The Blessing of a Late, Female Birth: Gisela Elsner's Fliegeralarm (1989)Uncanny Legacies: Gender and Guilt in Tanja Dückers' Himmelskörper (2003)The Dialectic of Vulnerability and Responsibility: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung (2007)EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

KATHERINE STONE is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Stone's . . . arguments effortlessly weave together a vast amount of scholarship and theory on gender, memory, and literature. Her writing is clear, efficient, and elegant. In short, this outstanding book is a Corrective for the tendency to reduce the history of Nazi Germany to the binaries of male/oppressor-female/victim. It is a must-read for scholars of post-1933 Germany and for feminist scholars, regardless of their area of focus.

• IntroductionThe Gender of Good and Evil: Guilt and Repression in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (1971)Matriarchal Morality: Women and Hope in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster (1976)Patriarchal Authority and Fascism Past and Present: Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel (1976)The Blessing of a Late, Female Birth: Gisela Elsner's Fliegeralarm (1989)Uncanny Legacies: Gender and Guilt in Tanja Dückers' Himmelskörper (2003)The Dialectic of Vulnerability and Responsibility: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung (2007)EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex