Post-war Women's Writing in German

Feminist Critical Approaches

• Author(s): Chris Weedon,
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Pages: 360
• ISBN_10: 157181048X
  ISBN_13: 9781571810489
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / German , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this broad-ranging collection, the first of its kind, examines the history of these writings in the context of the social and political developments in the respective countries. It combines survey chapters with detailed studies of prominent authors whose work is often unavailable in English. Chris Weedon is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff.