A family occupation : : children of the war and the memory of World War II in Dutch literature of the 1980s / / Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor.

• VerfasserIn: Vanderwal Taylor, Jolanda,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction, autobiography and the literature of trauma and...

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Anton's story
• 3. Innocent children
• 4. Language is the landscape of history : armando and history of enmity-- 5. Judgment, justice, and other collaborations
• 6. Distant cousins.