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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