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020    9781571133939 |qhardcover |qalkaline paper
020    1571133933 |qhardcover |qalkaline paper
035    (OCoLC)ocn234439336
035    149915
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050 00 PT405 |b.G4585 2009
245 00 Germans as victims in the literary fiction of the Berlin Republic / |cedited by Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger.
264  1 Rochester, N.Y. : |bCamden House, |c2009.
300    vi, 259 pages ; |c24 cm.
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
490 1  Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
500    "In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety of these texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner"--Publisher's website.
530    Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Victims in literature.
650  0 Germans in literature.
650  0 German literature |y20th century |xHistory and criticism.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xLiterature and the war.
700 1  Taberner, Stuart.
700 1  Berger, Karina, |d1977-
830  0 Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
856 40  |3Electronic version(s) available. |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=3003706 |zHosted by ProQuest
856 42  |zTable of contents |uhttp://www.camden-house.com/71133933.HTM |3Electronic version(s) available.
852 0   |bstacks |hPT405 |i.G4585 2009
852     |bebook