Narratives of trauma : : discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective / / edited by Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı.
Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in the public and private sphere. This shift in German memory culture from a focus on responsibility for the Holocaust to a focus on wartime suffering ha...
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| Superior document: | German monitor ; no. 73 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German monitor ;
no. 73. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | "The chapters in this volume originate in a conference held at Leeds University in summer 2008"--Page 11. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Narratives of Trauma
- Introduction / Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı
- ‘Killing Us in a Slow Way Instead of Doing it with Gas’: The German Catholic Discourse of ‘Suffering’, 1946-59 / Suzanne Brown-Fleming
- Imperialist Air War. East German academic Research and Memory Politics reflected in the Work of Olaf Groehler / Bas von Benda-Beckmann
- Hitler’s Legacy in Concrete and Steel: Memory and Civil Defence Bunkers in West Germany, 1950-65 / Nicholas J. Steneck
- Expressions of Memory in Pforzheim, a City hit by Air War / Christian Groh
- ‘Den Toten der ostdeutschen Heimat’: Local Expellee Monuments and the Construction of Post-war Narratives / Jeffrey Luppes
- Das Trauma der deutschen Kriegskinder zwischen nationaler und europäischer Erinnerung: Kritische Anmerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Wandel der Erinnerungskultur / Michael Heinlein
- Double Visions: Queer Femininity and Holocaust Film / Cathy S. Gelbin
- Foundational Traumas: On a Figure of Thought in Recent German Literature on Wartime Suffering / Helmut Schmitz
- German Victimhood Discourse in Comparative Perspective / Bill Niven
- Holland and the German Point of View: On the Dutch Reactions to German Victimhood / Krijn Thijs
- The Miracle Workers: ‘German Suffering’, Israeli Masculinity, and the Feminised/Queered Nation as Redemptive in Eytan Fox’s Walk On Water / Annette Seidel-Arpacı
- List of Contributors / Editors Narratives of Trauma
- Index / Editors Narratives of Trauma.