Publication

2001 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Goodreads3843431

Classifications

  • DDC920.72/0943/09034
  • LCCCT3430 .G44 2001

Description

"Truth to Tell discusses in-depth the works of four autobiographers. German-born Nahida Lazarus describes her conversion to Judaism during a time when Jews were increasingly marked as racial outsiders. Margarethe von Eckenbrecher, a colonizer and settler's wife, narrates how the anticolonial war of 1904 shattered her hopes of farm life in German Southwest Africa. The Austrian Social Democrat Adelheid Popp recalls her impoverished childhood in late-nineteenth-century Vienna. Finally, Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, wife of the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, describes her journey through the sexual and literary practices of masochism." "Truth to Tell adds significant new dimensions to our knowledge of turn-of-the-century culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of German, gender, and literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

WomenHistoryBiographyWomen, germanyHistory and criticismGermany, history, 1871-1918Germany -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Biography

Places

Times

Genres

  • Biography
  • Biography.

Series Statement

  • Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Other Editions

  • Truth to tellUniversity of Michigan Press2001

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