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Author(s):	Katja Herges

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1640141057
Pages:	280	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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In recent decades, life writing has exploded in popularity: memoirs that focus on traumatic experiences now constitute the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide. But life writing is not only highly marketable  it also does important emotional, cultural, and political work. It is more available to amateurs and those without the cultural capital or the self-confidence to embrace more traditional literary forms, and thus gives voice to marginalized populations. investigates various forms of German-language life writing, including memoirs, interviews, letters, diaries, and graphic novels, shedding light on its democratic potential, on its ability to personalize history and historicize the personal. The contributors ask how the various authors construct and negotiate notions of the self relative to sociopolitical contexts, cultural traditions, genre expectations, and narrative norms. They also investigate the nexus of writing, memory, and experience, including the genre's truth claims vis--vis the pliability and unreliability of human memories. Finally, they explore ethical questions that arise from intimate life writing and from the representation of "vulnerable subjects" as well as from the interrelation of material body, embodied self, and narrative. All forms of life writing discussed in this volume are invested in a process of making meaning and in an exchange of experience that allows us to relate our lives to the lives of others.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Women's Life Writing,
Female Subjectivity and Agency
1: "A Portrait of the Moment": Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Letters at the Boundary of Life Writing

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

3: Writing the Cultural Memory of East Germany through Women's

Part II. Modern Life Writing and Aesthetics
4: A Life of Its Own: Alfred Dblin on Autobiography and the Novel

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

Part III. Trauma and
6: Writing Two Selves: A Woman's Struggle to Cope with War

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

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

Part IV. Transnational and Transgenerational
Life Writing in Contemporary Germany9: The Case of the Disappearing Son: Gender, Genre, and German Postwar Cultural Memory in Niklas Frank's and F. C. Delius's

10: Lena Gorelik's Autofictional Letter : A Guide to Being Jewish in Contemporary Germany

11: Shapeshifters: Metamorphosing Transgenerational Trauma through Comics

12: Homeland, Nation, and Gender in the Life Writing of German and Jewish migrs

Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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