1st Edition
The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies
Introduction 1. Autobiographical Style, Myth, and the Practice of Literary Testimony 2. Exemplarity Effects: Feridun Zamaiglu’s Leyla as a Typical Turkish Tale 3. Mimesis Effects: Styling Testimonial Voices 4. Immediacy Effects: Deictic Shifts and Point of View in Verena Stefan’s Shedding, Peter Handke’s Hopeless Unhappiness, and Ruth Klüger’s Still Alive 5. Narrativity Effects: How Bernward Vesper's The Trip Became an Exemplary Testimony to the German Autumn of 1977 6. Addressivity Effects: Facework and Deference in the Literary Testimonies of Chima Oji, Şinasi Dikmen, and Feridun Zaimoğlu Epilogue: A Hunger for Experience
Biography
Chantelle Warner is Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona.
"Warner’s study is an important contribution to the scholarship not only on autobiographies, but on the aesthetic foundations of authenticity. Her analysis helps to elucidate the form and meaning of testimonies in an era of confession and to see through their fabrication as media events." - Monatshefte
