Viktoria Pötzl is a scholar of modern and contemporary Austrian and Jewish literatures and an Associate Professor of German Studies at Grinnell College. Her work has been published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Feminist German Studies, Monatshefte, and the Journal of Austrian Studies.

"Viktoria Pötzl's From a Girl in Khaki to a Woman in Black is a nuanced, sensitive, and intellectually compelling feminist reading of Yael Dayan’s literary oeuvre. Far more than a study that recovers or reconsiders an important historical figure, the book offers a profound rereading of Israeli history and culture through the intersecting lenses of gender, nation, memory, militarism, and political narrative. Through rich close analysis, Pötzl illuminates the ways Dayan's writing both reflects and unsettles dominant Israeli narratives, revealing how constructions of femininity, masculinity, Jewishness, nationalism, and historical trauma are produced, contested, and transformed in literary form. This is an important contribution to feminist literary scholarship, Israeli cultural studies, and the study of gendered national narratives." — Orian Zakai, author of Fiction of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination

• Preface to the English Translation: "Not devoid of hope for a better future"Preface: "I didn't write in order to be sexy"AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: "I still would have written it differently" 1. "I am several different women": Autobiographical self-representations2. "Do you remember how she was taken away": Shoah3. "Am I a patriot? A traitor?": Nation4. "To love and to be exuberant": Love, Sex, and Violence5. "No God or faith": Faith, Death, and Literary Settings6. "It would be the last war": Of the War of Narratives or the Narrative of WarConclusion: "And what else remains?" Appendix: Plot content summariesBibliography

Viktoria Pötzl is a scholar of modern and contemporary Austrian and Jewish literatures and an Associate Professor of German Studies at Grinnell College. Her work has been published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Feminist German Studies, Monatshefte, and the Journal of Austrian Studies.

"Viktoria Pötzl's From a Girl in Khaki to a Woman in Black is a nuanced, sensitive, and intellectually compelling feminist reading of Yael Dayan’s literary oeuvre. Far more than a study that recovers or reconsiders an important historical figure, the book offers a profound rereading of Israeli history and culture through the intersecting lenses of gender, nation, memory, militarism, and political narrative. Through rich close analysis, Pötzl illuminates the ways Dayan's writing both reflects and unsettles dominant Israeli narratives, revealing how constructions of femininity, masculinity, Jewishness, nationalism, and historical trauma are produced, contested, and transformed in literary form. This is an important contribution to feminist literary scholarship, Israeli cultural studies, and the study of gendered national narratives." — Orian Zakai, author of Fiction of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination

• Preface to the English Translation: "Not devoid of hope for a better future"Preface: "I didn't write in order to be sexy"AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: "I still would have written it differently" 1. "I am several different women": Autobiographical self-representations2. "Do you remember how she was taken away": Shoah3. "Am I a patriot? A traitor?": Nation4. "To love and to be exuberant": Love, Sex, and Violence5. "No God or faith": Faith, Death, and Literary Settings6. "It would be the last war": Of the War of Narratives or the Narrative of WarConclusion: "And what else remains?" Appendix: Plot content summariesBibliography