Physical Description
214 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Anna Seghers: a woman's voice in literature and history
Literature, history and mnemonic voids
History, literature and past actuality
Silence and mnemonic voids
An attempt to pierce silence
Text and reader: a matter of social discourse
Silence at the heart of postwar discourse
The emergence of silence
The perseverance of silence
The past as silence: a generational discourse
History, literature, and the daily lives of ordinary people
Piercing the silence of everyday life
Ceremony and mnemonic construction
Piercing the silence: women and daily life
Seghers' literature: mnemonic flashes of daily life
Confronting the silence
Women in Nazi society
Mothers in Hitler's Germany
Women as Nazi sympathizers
Reflections on daily life and the banality of evil.
ISBN
0838756646
9780838756645 (alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
Anna Seghers: a woman's voice in literature and history -- Literature, history and mnemonic voids -- History, literature and past actuality -- Silence and mnemonic voids -- An attempt to pierce silence -- Text and reader: a matter of social discourse -- Silence at the heart of postwar discourse -- The emergence of silence -- The perseverance of silence -- The past as silence: a generational discourse -- History, literature, and the daily lives of ordinary people -- Piercing the silence of everyday life -- Ceremony and mnemonic construction -- Piercing the silence: women and daily life -- Seghers' literature: mnemonic flashes of daily life -- Confronting the silence -- Women in Nazi society -- Mothers in Hitler's Germany -- Women as Nazi sympathizers -- Reflections on daily life and the banality of evil.
