Echoes of trauma and shame in German families : the post-World War II generations /
"How is it possible for people who were born in a time of relative peace and prosperity to suddenly discover war as a determining influence on their lives? For decades to speak openly of German suffering during World War II-to claim victimhood in a country that had victimized millions-was unthi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Between "mastering" and "silencing" the past : public commemorations of World War II
- "Why do you have to dig around in the past?" : conversations about World War II in German families
- Better "sick" than "strange" : the Kriegsenkel movement and the desire to legitimize suffering
- "Hooray, I am a Kriegsenkel!" : suffering and liberation in the age of therapy
- The invisible wounds of war : Kriegsenkel accounts of transgenerational transmission
- The losses and the shame of war : absence in Kriegsenkel narratives
- Conclusion.