Facing fascism and confronting the past : German women writers from Weimar to the present / edited by Elke P. Frederiksen and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.

Growing up in the eye of the firestorm : a Jewish childhood under the Nazis / Ruth Kluger -- Primitive and the modern : Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler / Gisela Brinker-Gabler -- "This number is not in service:" : destabilizing identities in Irmgard Keun's novels from Weimar and exile / Ritta Jo Horsley -- Victims or perpetrators? : literary responses to women's roles in national socialism / Elaine Martin -- Literary antifascism : Anna Segher's exile writings 1936 to 1949 / Gertraud Gutzmann -- Turning the gaze inward : Gertrud Kolmar's Briefe an die Schwester Hilde 1938-1943 / Monika Shafi -- Reconstructing mother : the myth and the real : autobiographical texts by Elisabeth Langgässer and Cordelia Edvardson / Helga Kraft -- At home in exile : Nelly Sachs : flight and metamorphosis / Ruth Dinesen -- Echoes of exile : the iterary response to the exiles by American women writers / Guy Stern -- Interchange between experience and literature : German-Jewish women writers of the Holocaust / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Luise Rinser : dialogues with the past? : the problem of Vergangenheitsbewältigung : (coming to terms with the past) / Elke P. Frederiksen -- Ingeborg Drewitz : three generations of women respond to fascism / Margaret E. Ward -- Fact, fantasy, and female subjectivity : Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Christa Wolf's Patterns of childhood / Robert C. Holub -- Grete Weil : a Jewish Antigone / Elke Liebs -- Gender, film, and German history : filmmaking by German women directors from Weimar to the present / Richard W. McCormick -- Look at the current situation of women in Germany / Renate Möhrmann -- New scholarly perspectives / Sara Lennox.