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Memory matters : generational responses to Germany's Nazi past in recent women's literature /

Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter of Jewish émigrés (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schaumann, Caroline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Remembering childhood in Nazi Germany. War children and child survivors
  • Memories and mourning: Christa Wolf's Patterns of childhood
  • Trauma and testimony: Ruth Klüger's weiter leben
  • pt. 2. Postmemory and the reconstruction of the past. The children of survivors and bystanders
  • Barbara Honigmann's belated appropriation of her Jewish heritage: from Roman von einem Kinde (Novel by a child) to Ein Kapitel ans meinem Leben (A chapter of my life)
  • Wibke Bruhns's father-portrait: My father's country: the story of a German family
  • pt. 3. In search of grandparents. The grandchildren of Nazi victims, perpetrators, collaborators, and bystanders
  • Images and imagination: Monika Maron's Pavel's letters
  • Tanja Dücker's "sensual historiography": Himmelskörper (Celestial bodies)
  • Epilogue.