TY - BOOK ID - 85464314 TI - Mapping morality in postwar German women's fiction : Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Drewitz, and Grete Weil PY - 2010 SN - 1282706993 9786612706998 1571137157 1571134433 PB - Rochester, NY : Camden House, DB - UniCat KW - German literature KW - German fiction KW - Literature and morals KW - Ethics in literature. KW - Literature KW - Morals and literature KW - Ethics KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Influence KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Wolf, Christa KW - Drewitz, Ingeborg KW - Weil, Grete, KW - Jockisch, Grete KW - Dispeker, Margarete Elisabeth KW - Volf, Krista KW - Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Weil, Grete KW - Jockisch, Grete, KW - Dispeker, Margarete Elisabeth, KW - Christa Wolf. KW - German literature. KW - Grete Weil. KW - Ingeborg Drewitz. KW - Postwar German Women's Fiction. KW - Third Reich. KW - bourgeois morality. KW - family. KW - feminism. KW - feminist ethics. KW - historical narratives. KW - history. KW - individual responsibility. KW - memory. KW - moral reflection. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85464314 AB - Christa Wolf (1929-), Ingeborg Drewitz (1923-1986), and Grete Weil (1906-1999) occupy very different positions in postwar German literature, yet all three challenge readers to consider how individuals understand their roles in history and how they negotiate their personal responsibilities based on those roles. These three are, of course, by no means the only German writers to have dealt with such questions in the wake of the Third Reich. But Wolf, Drewitz, and Weil ground their projects in the family, an institution often left out of such inquiries, giving them a different starting point for moral reflection. Before looking closely at the three writers' views of the individual's role and responsibility, the book devotes a chapter to the examination of individual and collective memory, then a chapter to how feminist ethicists view moral responsibility. Chapters on the three writers' literary approaches to the questions follow: Wolf enacts a process of historical and geographic triangulation; Drewitz constructs concentric historical and social circles; Weil seeks to repair the historical ruptures of the Holocaust, creating new historical narratives and exploring the limitations of traditional bourgeois morality. Each of the three attempts to map a geography of morals that begins within the structures of the extended family but interrogates individual responsibility in an increasingly globalized environment. Michelle Mattson is Associate Professor of German at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. ER -