Memory matters : generational responses to Germany's Nazi past in recent women's literature /
Schaumann, Caroline.
Memory matters : generational responses to Germany's Nazi past in recent women's literature / Caroline Schaumann. - Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations - Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, v. 4 1861-8030 ; . - Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
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.
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 (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Dückers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of inspiration,
English.
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Deutsch, ...
1900-1999
German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Collective memory and literature.
Women and literature--History--Germany--20th century.
National socialism in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Littérature allemande--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Mémoire collective et littérature.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Allemagne--20e siècle.
Nazisme dans la littérature.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
Collective memory and literature.
German literature.
German literature--Women authors.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
National socialism in literature.
Women and literature.
Nationalsozialismus
Frauenliteratur
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Nationalsozialismus
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Germany.
Deutsch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PT405 / .S3345 2008eb
830.9/35843086
Memory matters : generational responses to Germany's Nazi past in recent women's literature / Caroline Schaumann. - Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations - Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, v. 4 1861-8030 ; . - Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
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.
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 (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Dückers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of inspiration,
English.
9783110206593 (electronic bk.) 3110206595 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper) 3110202433 9783110202434 1282196634 9781282196636 9786612196638 6612196637
9783110202434
219663 MIL
Deutsch, ...
1900-1999
German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
German literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Collective memory and literature.
Women and literature--History--Germany--20th century.
National socialism in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Littérature allemande--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Mémoire collective et littérature.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Allemagne--20e siècle.
Nazisme dans la littérature.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
Collective memory and literature.
German literature.
German literature--Women authors.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
National socialism in literature.
Women and literature.
Nationalsozialismus
Frauenliteratur
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Nationalsozialismus
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Germany.
Deutsch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PT405 / .S3345 2008eb
830.9/35843086