Course-Related Guide --
Seminar in German Literature: Women & War
These links provide
information, texts, and other resources to serve as starting
points in your research on topics in German language and
literatures. Suggestions
for additions to this list that might be particularly helpful for
classes or activities may be sent to
Benjamin Harris, the
library's liaison for the German section of the Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures.
General Resources
Use reference resources to help focus on a topic, develop keywords
for searching, and to locate subject-specific bibliographies.
The following resources are available in the library's reference
book collection in the Information Commons.
● Contemporary German Fiction Writers: Series 1
and 2 (PS 21 .D52 1988)
● Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (HM 291 .E625 1999)
● Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people and culture,
1871-1990 (DD 14 .M64 1998)
● Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: global women's
issues and knowledge
(HQ 1115 .R69 2000)
● Timetables of Women's History: a chronology of the most important
people and events in women's history (HQ 1121 .G74 1994) or
Chronology of Women's History (HQ 1121 .047 1994)
● Women in World History: a biographical encyclopedia (HQ 1115
.W635)
● Women Writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland: an annotated
bio-bibliographical guide
(Z 2233.5 .W6W66 1989)
Searching for Books and Book Chapters
Use the library catalog to search for books on
your topic. Conduct keyword searches using author names,
book titles, or particular subjects. The following are examples
of books on German women writers that were located during a keyword
search of the library catalog:
● Gender, Patriarchy and Fascism in the Third
Reich: the response of women writers (PT 405 .G45 1993)
● History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
(PT 167 .H57 2000)
● Post-war Women's Writing in Germany: feminist critical
approaches (PT 405 .P625 1997)
● War, Women, and Poetry, 1914-1945: British and German Writers
and Activists (PR 605 .W65B95 1995)
● Yellow Street: a novel in five scenes Veza Canetti (PT 2605
.A588 G413 1991)
Searching for Articles
Use databases to find journal articles, magazines articles, and
newspaper articles on your topic. The following databases may be
particularly helpful for this course. When you find useful
keywords in your search, make note of these and use the same
words and combinations of words in other search situations.
Academic Search Complete
Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is the
world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly,
multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300
full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed
journals. In addition to full text, this database offers
indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a
total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports,
conference proceedings, etc.
JSTOR
Full-text scholarly journals in multiple disciplines,
coverage typically excludes the most recent 3-5 years.
Literature Resource Center
Contains information and biographical data on classical and
contemporary authors and their work.
MLA International Bibliography
Major citation index to critical scholarship in literature,
language, linguistics, and folklore. Some full-text articles.
Project Muse
Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the arts,
humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Internet Resources
Internet resources should be evaluated before
they are included in a scholarly project. Web resources are
not always helpful to students and scholars because
(1) website addresses and contents change, making it difficult for a
reader to verify or refer to the source;
(2) websites are difficult to evaluate, often due to missing
information related to authority, currency, and accuracy;
(3) and website authors do not always use materials with
consideration to copyright law.
The following sites have been evaluated by your Trinity librarian,
but you should always consult with your instructor before using web
resources in your projects or essays.
Ariadne
Women's information and documentation center at
the Austrian national library, providing information about the library's
holdings related to women; in German.
German Studies Web
"[...] designed to provide access to scholarly resources in German Studies,
including all German-speaking countries. The resources organized here have
undergone a selection and evaluation process. [...] The German Studies Web
is part of the Western European Specialists Section Web of resources for
West European studies."
H-Women Bibliographies
Extensive bibliographies on a large number of topics related to women,
sponsored by the H-Women listserv; note the special section of
bibliographies related to women and war.
Sophie--A Digital Library of Works by German Speaking
Women
Collection of works and resources related to writing by German speaking
women.
Get Books and Articles from Other Libraries
Many times, your research might benefit from
books and articles that have been published but that are
unavailable at the Trinity library. In these cases,
use ILLIAD, the library's online interlibrary loan system.
It is easy to use and since so much of the process is automated,
you can receive items quicker than once was possible.
However, you should still allow time to receive the item (books in
particular, since they must travel through the mail system).
Cite Your Sources
Refer to the
library's pages for citing sources.
Image Credit
"The Suffering of Women in a Time of War" by Ann Bielecka,
used with permission of the artist.
Note: The following explanatory note was written by the artist in
giving permission for the use of this image.
"'The Suffering of Women in a Time of War 'was painted in
Warsaw, Poland, on the day of the big anti-war rally in London in
February 2002. I was unable to be there but my daughter went. It
is my personal response to the situation of helplessness faced by
women at such a time.
This painting has been in exhibitions and responses have described
it as powerful and intense - some people find it too disturbing to
look at for long.
It is based on my own life, my mother's experiences and my
grandmothers. I have tried to represent women of all races,
creeds, religions and ages, daughters waiting for their fathers
return, wives and lovers waiting for their men, mothers for their
sons. So it is also a self-portrait, as my father was killed in
WW2. I am Welsh, my father was in the British Royal Navy. My
husband's mother was in Auschwitz and we have, as a family, been
deeply affected by wars."
Please visit the artist's website at... http://www.anniebielecka.co.uk/
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