Women writing war : from German colonialism through World War I Frontmatter Table of contents Introduction. women writing war: from german colonialism through world war i von Hammerstein Katharina Kosta Barbara Shoults Julie Representations of colonial conflicts who owns hereroland . diverse womens perspectives on violence in the german herero colonial war von Hammerstein Katharina Christian love and other weapons. the domestic heroine of the multiracial colonial mission family as an antiwar icon in hedwig irles mission memoirs Brewer Cindy Patey Girls imperialism and war in womens writing from the german herero war and wwi Gallagher Maureen O. Views from the colonies on wwi Woman on the edge of time. frieda schmidt and the great war in east africa Bechhaus Gerst Marianne World war i in samoa as reported by frieda zieschank in the german colonial magazine kolonie und heimat Rigotti Livia Political perspectives on nationalism and wwi Bertha von suttners die waffen nieder! and the gender of german pacifism Rose Shelley E. Ricarda huchs first world war Skidmore James M. Hermynia zur mühlen. writing a socialist feminist pacifism in the aftermath of wwi Shoults Julie Constructing the labor of war: girls mothers and nurses Girls reading the great war. german and anglo american literature for young women 1914 1920 Redmann Jennifer Käte kestiens als die männer im graben lagen. wwi criticism through the lens of motherhood Walter Gensler Cindy Three nurses life writing. scrapbook portrait and construction of a self Higonnet Margaret R. Narratives of loss and grief in art and literature Writing and reading death. german womens novels of world war i Quinn Erika War widows dilemma. emotion the myths of war and the search for selbständigkeit Kuhlman Erika Intimations of mortality from recollections of atrocity. käthe kollwitz and the art of mourning Kolb Martina Notes on authors Names index Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war and on the many voices who contributed to were affected by and or critiqued German war efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their nations imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an interdisciplinary investigation this volume explores select female authored German language texts focusing on German colonial wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I or a Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection of nationalism violence and gender and about the historical continuities and disruptions that shape such events