Feminist German Studies

Volume 40, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2024)
Contents
Acknowledgments 

Editors’ Introduction 

Mariella Mehr’s steinzeit: Narrating Trauma through Autofiction 
Natasza Gardner

Refugee Romances: Solidarity, Love, and Care in the Exile Novels of Adrienne Thomas 
Kathryn Sederberg

“Across borders stretches the worker’s hand. And class at last destroys the fatherland”: Klara Blum/Zhu Bailan’s Search for Equality 
Viktoria Pötzl

The Value of a Diligent Housewife: Rereading Amalia Schoppe’s Fairy Tales through a Socialist Feminist Lens 
Juliane Wuensch

“Ein handwerklicher Romancier”: Masochist Antimodernism in the Works of Robert Walser 
Maya Vinokour

Book Reviews
Karen R. Achberger and Karl Ivan Solibakke, editors and translators. The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann 
Imke Meyer

Gesa Dane and Gail K. Hart, editors. “Ich kann eigentlich nichts als lesen und schreiben”: Zum literarischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Werk von Ruth Klüger 
Elizabeth Mittman

Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik, editors. Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
Karolina Hicke

Senta Goertler and Theresa Schenker. From Study Abroad to Education Abroad: Language Proficiency, Intercultural Competence, and Diversity 
Lisabeth Hock

Ina Linge. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing 
Tiarra Maznick

Ervin Malakaj. Anders als die Andern 
Andrea Schmidt

Wendy C. Nielsen. Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890
Alexandra M. Stewart

Simone Pfleger. Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics: Temporality, Relationality, and Intimacy in the Cinema of the Berlin School 
Mareike Herrmann

Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith, editors. Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University 
Andrea Dawn Bryant

Katrina Sark, editor. Social Justice Pedagogies: Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches 
Annika Orich

Heidi Schlipphacke. The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century 
Mari Jarris

Kira Thurman. Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms 
Andrea Dawn Bryant

Anna von Rath. Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin 
Imke Brust

Karin A. Wurst. Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women’s Work in Germany around 1800: Feeling at Home 
Rebecca Steele

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Modern Languages
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"Sympathy for a Villain?: Suffering Men and Angelic Women in the Novels of Caroline Auguste Fischer (1764–1842)" (Vol. 29, 2013)
"Sophie von La Roche’s Die Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771): Conceptualizing Female Selfhood around 1800" (Vol. 29, 2013)
"'Alles so orientalisch': The Elaboration of Desire in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (1896)" (Vol. 29, 2013)
"Discovering Scheherazade: Representations of Oriental Women in the Travel Writing of Nineteenth-Century German Women" (Vol. 29, 2013)

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