Daughters of Eve: Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic (European Women Writers) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803279426 ISBN 13: 9780803279421

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

Synopsis

This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers to writers whose voices are essential to an understanding of the situation of women in today's changing Europe. Included are short stories, essays, autobiographical sketches, and excerpts from novels, written between 1974 and 1986 by women of the postwar generation. Their work reflects everyday life in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall with vitality, sympathy, humor, and warmth. This literature has been of great significance within the GDR as a public forum for social-critical discussion, and in the West for its depiction-as the volume title suggests-of universal issues confronting women in modern society: women and work, women and family, women's self-determination in relation to other people and social institutions. The twenty-five authors represented are Renate Apitz, Irene Böhme, Daniela Dahn, Gabriele Eckart, Christiane Grosz, Monika Helmecke, Helga Königsdorf, Angela Krauss, Katja Lange-Müller, Beate Morgenstern, Irmtraud Morgner, Christa Müller, Doris Paschiller, Helga Schubert, Helga Schütz, Maria Seidemann, Angela Stachowa, Gerti Tetzner, Maxie Wander, Petra Werner, Maja Wiens, Christa Wolf, Christina Wolter, Charlotte Worgitzky, and Rosemarie Zeplin. Notes and biographical introductions are provided for each story. Nancy Lukens is an associate professor of German and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire. Dorothy Rosenberg is an assistant professor of German studies and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College.

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Nancy Lukens is an associate professor of German and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire. Dorothy Rosenberg is an assistant professor of German studies and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College.

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This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers to writers whose voices are essential to an understanding of the situation of women in today's changing Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803279426
• ISBN 13: 9780803279421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Rosenberg Dorothy, Lukens Nancy