| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies,
1861-8030 ;
v. 4
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Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 4.
1861-8030
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345). |
| Summary |
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, |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
German literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- Women authors. |
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Collective memory and literature.
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Collective memory and literature. |
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Women and literature -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
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National socialism in literature.
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National socialism in literature. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schaumann, Caroline, 1969- Memory matters. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, ©2008 (DLC) 2008003736 |
| ISBN |
9783110206593 (electronic book) |
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3110206595 (electronic book) |
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9783110202434 (alkaline paper) |
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3110202433 (alkaline paper) |
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