Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945 : : (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture /

Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945 : : (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture / / ed. by Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner.

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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 interdisplicinary work, this book examines questions of representing the past from the perspective of literary studies, social ps...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
ASSMANN, ALEIDA,
BECKER, DANIEL,
COHEN-PFISTER, LAUREL,
FOX, THOMAS C.,
GLAJAR, VALENTINA,
HAGE, VOLKER,
HALVERSON, RACHEL,
LUTOMSKI, PAWEL,
MARTIN, JAMES,
PRAGER, BRAD,
SATHE, NIKHIL,
SEGELCKE, ELKE,
SINKA, MARGIT,
VEES-GULANI, SUSANNE,
WELZER, HARALD,
WIENROEDER-SKINNER, DAGMAR,
HerausgeberIn:
Cohen-Pfister, Laurel,
Wienroeder-Skinner, Dagmar,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2006
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (371 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-vi
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933–1945
  • Transgenerational Memory
  • Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature
  • “Ein Fressen für mein MG”: The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm’s. Am Beispiel meines Bruders
  • Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen’s Lena and Judith Kuckart’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 War
  • Writing Dresden Across the Generations
  • Jewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance
  • Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmann’s Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History
  • Α World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr’s Morbus Kitahara
  • The “Different” Holocaust Memorial in Berlin’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 Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig
  • Acknowledging 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 Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathers’ Past
  • The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers
  • Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-unification
  • Coming to Terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Walser’s Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names

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