Die Pionierinnen der Pionierin: zu Gerda Lerners "The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Womens Rights and Abolition" (1967/2004) = Übersetzung des Sachtitels: The Pioneers of the Pioneer : On Gerda Lerner's "The Grimké Sisters of South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition" (1967/2004)
This article traces the history of the double biography "The Grimké Sisters" (1967/2004) by Gerda Lerner, an American Jewish historian who, as a Viennese Jew, escaped Nazi Europe for the United States in 1939. Focusing on the history of the making of "The Grimké Sisters", the ess...
| Published in: | Aschkenas |
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| Subtitles: | "Das Fremde im Eigenen - das Eigene im Fremden: Jüdisches biographisches Schreiben über Andere" Übersetzung des Sachtitels: The Pioneers of the Pioneer |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2023
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| In: |
Aschkenas
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| Further subjects: | B
US-Amerikanische Frauengeschichte
B feminist auto / biography B US-American women's history B Gerda Lerner B Biographie / feministische Auto |
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| Summary: | This article traces the history of the double biography "The Grimké Sisters" (1967/2004) by Gerda Lerner, an American Jewish historian who, as a Viennese Jew, escaped Nazi Europe for the United States in 1939. Focusing on the history of the making of "The Grimké Sisters", the essay analyzes Lerner's book as "life writing". It demonstrates Gerda Lerner's (1920-2013) becoming scholarly persona in the context of her self-interpretation of the Grimké Sisters as her own figures of identification and role model. By showing the nexus of African Americans' rights and women's rights in the Grimké sisters' engagement, Gerda Lerner processed the own in the foreign. In doing so, Lerner's interest in white abolitionism and the women's rights movement in the 19th century U.S. echoes her multiple outsider and persecution experiences as a Jewish emigrant, left-wing feminist, and pioneer in Women's history in the 20th century. |
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| ISSN: | 1865-9438 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aschkenas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/asch-2023-2016 |