German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse Since 1990 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1571134425 ISBN 13 : 9781571134424

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public discourse that engage with the long-term effects of National Socialism across generations. Taking issue with the concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," or coming to terms with the Nazi past, which after 1945 guided nearly all debate on the topic, the contributors to this volume view contemporary German culture through the more dynamic concept of "memory contests," which sees all forms of memory, public or private, as ongoing processes of negotiating identity in the present. Touching on gender, generations, memory and postmemory, trauma theory, ethnicity, historiography, and family narrative, the contributions offer a comprehensive picture of current German memory debates, in so doing shedding light on the struggle to construct a German identity mindful of but not wholly defined by the horrors of National Socialism and the Holocaust. Contributors: Peter Fritzsche, Anne Fuchs, Elizabeth Boa, Stefan Willer, Chloe E. M. Paver, Matthias Fiedler, J. J. Long, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Cathy S. Gelbin, Jennifer E. Michaels, Mary Cosgrove, Andrew Plowman, Roger Woods. Anne Fuchs is professor of modern German literature and Georg Grote is lecturer in German history, both at University College Dublin. Mary Cosgrove is lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

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À propos des auteurs

Anne Fuchs is professor of modern German literature and culture at University College Dublin.

Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary
and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,
2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).

Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in
German at the University of Liverpool.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571134425
• ISBN 13: 9781571134424
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Fuchs Anne, Cosgrove Mary, Grote Georg
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