- Series
- Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, v. 2
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 2.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2006]
©2006
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Introduction : history and the memory of suffering : rethinking 1933-1945 / Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner
Limits of understanding : generational identities in recent German memory literature / Aleida Assmann
"Ein Fressen für mein MG" : the problem of German suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders / Nikhil Sathe
Mothers, memories, and mnemonics : Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe / Rachel Halverson
To write or remain silent? : the portrayal of the air war in German literature / Volker Hage
The language of trauma : Dieter Forte's memories of the air war / Susanne Vees-Gulani
Writing Dresden across the generations / Thomas Fox
Breaking the taboo : Barbara Honigmann's narrative quest for a German-Jewish (family) history / Elke Segelcke
A world turned upside down : role reversals in the victim-perpetrator complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus kitahara / James Martin
The "different" Holocaust memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches Viertel : personal and collective remembrance thematizing perpetrator-victim relationships / Margit Sinka
Victims and perpetrators : representations of the German-Czech conflict in texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig / Valentina Glajar
Acknowledging each other as victims : an unmet challenge in the process of Polish-German reconciliation / Pawel Lutomski
Attempts at (re)conciliation : Polish-German relations in literary texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk / Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner
The collatoral damage of enlightenment : how grandchildren understand the history of National Socialist crimes and their grandfathers' past / Harald Welzer
The haunted screen (again) : the historical unconscious of contemporary German thrillers / Brad Prager
Rape, war, and outrage : changing perceptions on German victimhood in the period of post-unification / Laurel Cohen-Pfister
Coming to terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung : Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo war, and the transformation of German historical consciousness / Daniel Becker.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cohen-Pfister, Laurel, 1957-
Wienröder-Skinner, Dagmar.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : history and the memory of suffering : rethinking 1933-1945 / Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner -- Limits of understanding : generational identities in recent German memory literature / Aleida Assmann -- "Ein Fressen für mein MG" : the problem of German suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders / Nikhil Sathe -- Mothers, memories, and mnemonics : Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe / Rachel Halverson -- To write or remain silent? : the portrayal of the air war in German literature / Volker Hage -- The language of trauma : Dieter Forte's memories of the air war / Susanne Vees-Gulani -- Writing Dresden across the generations / Thomas Fox -- Breaking the taboo : Barbara Honigmann's narrative quest for a German-Jewish (family) history / Elke Segelcke -- A world turned upside down : role reversals in the victim-perpetrator complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus kitahara / James Martin -- The "different" Holocaust memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches Viertel : personal and collective remembrance thematizing perpetrator-victim relationships / Margit Sinka -- Victims and perpetrators : representations of the German-Czech conflict in texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig / Valentina Glajar -- Acknowledging each other as victims : an unmet challenge in the process of Polish-German reconciliation / Pawel Lutomski -- Attempts at (re)conciliation : Polish-German relations in literary texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk / Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner -- The collatoral damage of enlightenment : how grandchildren understand the history of National Socialist crimes and their grandfathers' past / Harald Welzer -- The haunted screen (again) : the historical unconscious of contemporary German thrillers / Brad Prager -- Rape, war, and outrage : changing perceptions on German victimhood in the period of post-unification / Laurel Cohen-Pfister -- Coming to terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung : Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo war, and the transformation of German historical consciousness / Daniel Becker.
