Truth to Tell: German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-Of-The-Century Culture

by Katharina Gerstenberger

Focusing on seminal but hereto-fore neglected autobiographies by German and Austrian women from the turn of the twentieth century, Truth to Tell shows how women positioned themselves between tradition and modernity and how they shaped many of the cultural and political discourses at their particular junction in history.
Katharina Gerstenberger argues that women autobiographers responded articulately to the vicissitudes of modernity. What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472111833
• ISBN13: 9780472111831
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"