The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, And Postwar Germans - Couverture rigide

Barnouw, Dagmar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0253346517 ISBN 13 : 9780253346513

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2005

Synopsis

W. G. Sebald offer evidence that these submerged memories are surfacing. Taking account of these developments, Barnouw examines this debate about the validity and importance of German memories of war and the events that have occasioned it. Steering her path between the notions of âvictimâ and âperpetrator,â Barnouw seeks a place where acknowledgment of both the horror of Auschwitz and the suffering of the non-Jewish Germans can, together, create a more complete historical remembrance for postwar generations. Dagmar Barnouw is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, and author of Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity, Germany 1945, and Naipaul's Strangers (all Indiana University Press), among other books of cultural criticism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sixty years after the end of World War II, its impact on German civilians remains a subject that is still difficult to broach in public discourse. The war experiences of ordinary Germans have been little studied, as if the memories of the defeated were not deserving of preservation. In Germany, the subject sparks intense debates about the official national memory that the defeated were collectively guilty. In the United States, evidence that these memories are surfacing is apparent in the publication of "Crabwalk" by Gunter Grass, "The Natural History of Destruction" by W. G. Sebald, and "The Fire" by Jorg Friedrich. Steering her path between the Scylla and Charybdis of the notions of "victim" and "perpetrator," Dagmar Barnouw seeks a place where the memories of the horrors of Nazi persecution and the horrors of war together might create a more complete historical remembrance for post-war generations.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dagmar Barnouw is Professor of German and Comparative
Literature, University of Southern California, and author of Weimar
Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity (Indiana University Press,
1988), Germany 1945 (Indiana University Press, 1996), and
Naipaul's Strangers (Indiana University Press, 2003), among other
books of cultural criticism. She lives in Del Mar, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253346517
• ISBN 13: 9780253346513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 303
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible