Germans as victims in the literary fiction of the Berlin Republic /

"In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Taberner, Stuart, Berger, Karina, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
1900-1999
Victims in literature.
Germans in literature.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Victimes dans la littérature.
Allemands dans la littérature.
Littérature allemande > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German literature
Germans in literature
Victims in literature
War and literature
Literatur
Opfer > Religion, Motiv
Vergangenheitsbewältigung > Motiv
Zweiter Weltkrieg > Motiv
Deutsch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger
  • W.G. Sebald and German wartime suffering / Stephen Brockmann
  • The natural history of destruction : W.G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied bombings / Colette Lawson
  • Expulsion novels of the 1950s : more than meets the eye? / Karina Berger
  • "In this prison of the guard room" : Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 in the context of contemporary debates / Frank Finlay
  • Family, heritage, and German wartime suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm / Helmut Schmitz
  • Lost Heimat in generational novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath / Elizabeth Boa
  • "A different family story" : German wartime suffering in women's writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun / Caroline Schaumann
  • The place of German wartime suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's family text / David Clarke
  • "Why only now?" : the representation of German wartime suffering as a "memory taboo" in Günter Grass's novella Im Krebsgang / Katharina Hall
  • Rereading Der Vorleser, remembering the perpetrator / Rick Crownshaw
  • Narrating German suffering in the shadow of Holocaust victimology : W.G. Sebald, contemporary trauma theory, and Dieter Forte's air raids epic / Mary Cosgrove
  • Günter Grass's account of German wartime suffering in Beim Haüten der Zwiebel : mind in mourning or boy adventurer? / Helen Finch
  • Jackboots and jeans : the private and the political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders / Frank Finlay
  • Memory-work in recent German novels : what (if any) limits remain on empathy with the "German experience" of the second World War? / Stuart Taberner
  • "Secondary suffering" and victimhood : the "other" of German identity in Bernhard Schlink's "Die Beschneidung" and Maxim Biller's "Harlem holocaust" / Kathrin Schödel.

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