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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

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Prof.Helen Chambers
Department of German
The University
St Andrews KY16 9PH
Tel 01334 463659
Fax 01334 463677