1st Edition
German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past Representations of National Socialism in Contemporary Germanic Literature
Edited By Helmut Schmitz
Copyright 2001
194 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Literary Portrayals of National Socialism in Post-Unification German Literature, Bill Niven; Views of History, Views of the State: Günter Grass and the German Past, Julian Preece; 'Deutsche Geschichte darf auch einmal gutgehen': Martin Walser, Auschwitz, and the 'German Question' from Ehen in Philippsburg to Ein springender Brunnen, Stuart Taberner; 'Das korsakowsche Syndrom': Remembrance and Responsibility in W.G. Sebald, Arthur Williams; 'Die Ungnade der späten Geburt?': the theme of national socialism in recent novels by Bernhard Schlink and Klaus Modick , Stuart Parkes; Elisabeth Reichart's Nachtmär -The enduring Nightmare of Austria in the 1990s, Juliet Wigmore; Soundscapes of the Third Reich - Marcel Beyer's Flughunde, Helmut Schmitz; Of Death, Kitsch and Melancholia: Aimée und Jaguar: ’Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943’ or ’Eine Liebe größer als der Tod’? Anna M. Parkinson; Journey to an unknown destination: Gudrun Pausewang's Transgressive Teenage Novel Reise im August, Susan Tebbutt; Notes on Contributors.
Biography
Helmut Schmitz
