ISSN 2578-5206
eISSN 2578-5192
Volume 36, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2020)
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
Goethe’s Stalker Snails
Barbara N. Nagel
Henriette Kraze’s Heim Neuland (1908) and the Idealized Nonviolent Colonial Community
Imke Brust
Seduced by Poetry, Sickened by Mass Spectacle: Julia Franck’s Gendered Portrait of Weimar Berlin in Die Mittagsfrau (2007)
Jill Suzanne Smith
“The Friendship of Our Distant Relations”: Feminism and Animal Families in Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand (1963)
Anna Richards
Book Reviews
Kristy R. Boney and Jennifer Marston William, editors. Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Film
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