Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-30

Part I - Women’s Life Writing, Female Subjectivity and Agency

pp 31-32

1 - “A Portrait of the Moment”: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Letters at the Boundary of Life Writing

pp 33-50

2 - A Force of Nature: Narrative Strategies of Autobiography in the Work of Poet-Queen Carmen Sylva

pp 51-72

3 - Writing the Cultural Memory of East Germany through Women’s Interviewliteratur

pp 73-92

Part II - Modern Life Writing and Aesthetics

pp 93-94

4 - A Life of Its Own: Alfred Döblin on Autobiography and the Novel

pp 95-114

5 - A Man of the Century in His Poems: Johannes R. Becher and the Creation of the Twentieth-Century Life Narrative

pp 115-128

Part III - Trauma and Vergangenheitsbewältigung

pp 129-130

6 - Writing Two Selves: A Woman’s Struggle to Cope with War

pp 131-146

7 - “Confrontation with My Complicity”: Paratextual Self-Encounters in Diaries of the Second World War

pp 147-166

8 - Voices from an “Extinct Species”: Narrative Responses to Trauma in German Jewish Memoirs

pp 167-188

Part IV - Transnational and Transgenerational Life Writing in Contemporary Germany

pp 189-190

9 - The Case of the Disappearing Son: Gender, Genre, and German Postwar Cultural Memory in Niklas Frank’s Meine deutsche Mutter and F. C. Delius’s Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau

pp 191-204

10 - Lena Gorelik’s Autofictional Letter Lieber Mischa: A Guide to Being Jewish in Contemporary Germany

pp 205-228

11 - Shapeshifters: Metamorphosing Transgenerational Trauma through Comics

pp 229-247

12 - Homeland, Nation, and Gender in the Life Writing of German and Jewish Émigrés

pp 248-270

Bibliography

pp 271-296

Notes on the Contributors

pp 297-300

Index

pp 301-314