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The Long Shadow of the Past Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture.

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Summary: Examines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for what they reveal about the country's contemporary politics of memory.
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture ; v.Volume 181
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Format: Online resource
Author/Creator: Krylova, Katya.
Published: Melton : Boydell & Brewer, 2017
Locale: Austria
Contents: Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Confrontations with the Past; 1: Melancholy Journeys to the Past: The Films of Ruth Beckermann; 2: Reconstructing a Home: Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der Kindheit; 3: Silencing the Past: Margarete Heinrich's and Eduard Erne's Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek's Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel); 4: Historicizing the Waldheim Affair: Robert Schindel's Der Kalte; 5: Missing Images: Memorials and Memorial Projects in Contemporary Vienna; Conclusion: Living with Shadows; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-189) and index.

Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Confrontations with the Past; 1: Melancholy Journeys to the Past: The Films of Ruth Beckermann; 2: Reconstructing a Home: Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der Kindheit; 3: Silencing the Past: Margarete Heinrich's and Eduard Erne's Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek's Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel); 4: Historicizing the Waldheim Affair: Robert Schindel's Der Kalte; 5: Missing Images: Memorials and Memorial Projects in Contemporary Vienna; Conclusion: Living with Shadows; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by EBSCO
ISBN: 9781787440456
1787440451
Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 p.)

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Austria. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German Waldheim, Kurt--Influence. Waldheim, Kurt.

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