ISBN:
1571136762
,
9781571136763
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 344 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Parallel Title:
Print version German memory contests
DDC:
306.0943
Keywords:
Group identity History 20th century
;
Collective memory
;
Germany History 1990-
;
Historiography
;
Germany Civilization 20th century
;
Psychological aspects
;
Konferenzschrift 2004
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Germany's memory contests and the management of the past / Anne Fuchs and Mary CosgroveWhat exactly is Vergangenheitsbewältigung? : narrative and its insufficiency in postwar Germany / Peter Fritzsche -- The tinderbox of memory : generation and masculinity in Väterliteratur by Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Ulla Hahn, and Dagmar Leupold / Anne Fuchs -- Telling it how it wasn't : familial allegories of wish-fulfillment in postunification Germany / Elizabeth Boa -- Being translated : exile, childhood, and multilingualism in G.-A. Goldschmidt and W.G. Sebald / Stefan Willer -- "Ein Stuck langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer" : the exhibition Fotofeldpost as riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition" / Chloe E.M. Paver -- German crossroads : visions of the past in German cinema after reunification / Matthias Fiedler -- Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe : photography, narrative, and the claims of postmemory / J.J. Long -- Imagined identities : children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in literature / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Of stories and histories : Golem figures in post-1989 German and Austrian culture / Cathy S. Gelbin -- Multi-ethnicity and cultural identity : Afro-German women writers' struggle for identity in postunification Germany / Jennifer E. Michaels -- The anxiety of German influence : affiliation, rejection, and Jewish identity in W.G. Sebald's work / Mary Cosgrove -- Between "restauration" and "Nierentisch" : the 1950s in Ludwig Harig, F.C. Delius, and Thomas Hettche / Andrew Plowman -- On forgetting and remembering : the new right since German unification / Roger Woods -- A Heimat in ruins and the ruins as Heimat : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Anne Fuchs.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-327) and index
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