New Book Announcement First in a New Series Violence, Culture and Identity. Essays on German and Austrian Literature, Politics, and Society, ed. by Helen Chambers (Oxford, Berne: Peter Lang), Cultural Identity Studies 1. Available from www.peterlang.com CONTENTS HELMUT KUZMICS Violence and Pacification in Norbert Elias's Theory of Civilization ANN SIMON Sharp Tongues and Sharper Swords: Violence towards Women in the Ritter vom Turm ULRIKE ZITZLSPERGER Women's Identity and Authoritarian Force: Women Pamphleteers of the German Reformation RITCHIE ROBERTSON 'Die Menschen zu ihrem Glück zwingen': Polemical and Judicial Violence in the Austrian Enlightenment R. H. STEPHENSON Violence and Aesthetic Identity in Weimar Classicism LAURA MARTIN The Jew in the Thornbush: German Fairy Tales and Anti-Semitism in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Musäus, Naubert and the Grimms HELEN CHAMBERS Theodor Fontane and the Poetry of Colonial Violence MICHAEL BOEHRINGER Gender, Identity and the Function of Violence in Ferdinand von Saar's Die Troglodytin MALCOLM HUMBLE From 'the propaganda of the deed' to the New Community: The Transformation of Anarchism in Germany 1880-1920 and its Reflection in Literature INGRID SHARP Dangerous Women: Woman as Sexual Criminal in the Weimar Republic MICHAEL GRATZKE Fire and Blood: Modernization, Individuation and Violence in German War Literature MAGGIE SARGEANT Changing Notions of Identity: The German Soldier of the Second World War MARY COSGROVE Bodies of Violence, Violated Bodies: The Victimized Victimizer in Albert Drach's Holocaust Autobiography CLARE FLANAGAN Political Violence and National Identity in Germany 1945 and 1989 SARAH COLVIN 'Wenn deine Identität Kampf ist': Violence, Gendered Language and Identity in the Writing of Ulrike Marie Meinhof VOLKER LANGBEHN Deadly Identity Formations in Gert Heidenreich's Füchse Jagen HENRIK PEDERSEN Terror on the Stage: The German 'Red Army Faction' (RAF) as Political Performance REBECCA BEARD 'Sticks and stones may break my bonesŠ': The increasingly Aesthetic Enactment of Violence in the Work of Elfriede Jelinek PETRA M. BAGLEY A Stolen Childhood: The Fact and Fiction of 'Schwarze Pädagogik' MONIKA SHAFI Spaces of Violence: On the Role of Home, Nature and Gender in Narratives by Karen Duve and Felicitas Hoppe MATTHIAS FIEDLER Crossing the Boundary of the Other: Identity and Physical Violence in Georg Klein's Novel Libidissi CHRISTOPHER JONES 'Bestialisch dahingeschlachtet': Extreme Violence in German Crime Fiction -- --------------------- Prof.Helen Chambers Department of German The University St Andrews KY16 9PH Tel 01334 463659 Fax 01334 463677