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Victims and perpetrators, 1933-1945 : (re)presenting the past in post-unification culture /

This volume examines the politics of history and memory in Germany today through a review and analysis of seminal developments in the current discourse on 1933 - 1945. An interdisciplinary work, this book examines questions of representing the past from the perspective of literary studies, social ps...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cohen-Pfister, Laurel, 1957-, Wienröder-Skinner, Dagmar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2006.
Colección:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction:
  • History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945
  • Transgenerational Memory
  • Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature
  • „Ein Fressen fÃ?r mein MG“: The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timmâ€?s Am Beispiel meines Bruders
  • Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansenâ€?s Lena and Judith Kuckartâ€?s Lenas Liebe
  • Air War and German Literature
  • To Write or Remain Silent? The Portrayal of the Air War in German Literature.
  • The Language of Trauma: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air WarWriting Dresden Across the Generations
  • Jewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance
  • Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmannâ€?s Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History
  • A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara
  • The „Different“ Holocaust Memorial in Berlinâ€?s Bayerisches Viertel: Personal and Collective Remembrance Thematizing Perpetrator/Victim Relationships
  • Transnational Reconciliation.
  • Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter HÃ?rtling, Pavel Kohout, and JÃœrg BernigAcknowledging Each Other As Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of Polish-German Reconciliation
  • Attempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk
  • Historical Consciousness and the German Present
  • The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchilren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathersâ€? Past.
  • The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German ThrillersRape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification
  • Coming to Terms with VergangenheitsbewÃ?ltigung. Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names.