LEADER 04076ctm a2200445Ia 4500001 39617 005 20240621170315.0 008 991025s1995 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)42698236 035 39617 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PT2603.O394 |bZ745 1995 100 1 Snyder, Susan Elizabeth. 245 10 Generations of trauma : |bstudies on the familial impact of fascism in postwar German and Austrian fiction / |cby Susan Elizabeth Snyder. 264 0 |c1995. 300 176 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1995. 504 Includes bibliographical references. 520 This study presents a reading of four German and Austrian novels in which the period of National Socialism is depicted as a trauma that continues to shape the psyche of postwar society. It is argued that in the case of both countries the events of the Second World War can be viewed as a past that is essentially not over, a psychic trauma as yet unresolved. Specifically, this analysis seeks to bridge the research of literary critics and psychologists by examining how the physical, cognitive and behavioral repercussions of the Nazi era are powerfully manifested in the fictional families of all four texts, circulating between husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, parents and their children. The readings will attend to how, in each novel, the postwar family establishes the point of intersection between the war's disruption of individual lives and the larger societal impact caused by the overwhelming and catastrophic events of Hitler's Reich. Questions raised include: In what ways is the trauma of the Second World War re-experienced or re-invented in the lives of the authors' fictional subjects? How do attitudes towards National Socialism differ between those characters who were themselves participants in the war and their children? What is it about the trauma of the Third Reich that makes its conversion into language so difficult? What are the authorial techniques employed by each novelist in portraying the repetition of trauma within the familial sphere as well as his/her strategies for approaching Germany's and Austria's dual role as victim and aggressor? The four novels chosen for discussion allow for a diverse exploration of trauma within the context of the postwar German and Austrian family: Und sagte kein einziges Wort (1953) by Heinrich Boll focuses on the war's impact on German family life in the immediate postwar period; Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster (1976) chronicles the narrator's return to the site of her war-torn adolescence and her attempts to share the memory of this experience with her own family; Peter Schneider's Vati (1987), an account of how the son of an aging Auschwitz physician struggles to free himself from his father's Nazi past; and finally, Die Ausgesperrten (1980) by Elfriede Jelinek, which highlights the damaging repercussions of fascism upon three separate families in late 1950s Vienna. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e23 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Böll, Heinrich, |d1917-1985. |tUnd sagte kein einziges Wort. 600 10 Wolf, Christa. |tKindheitsmuster. 600 10 Schneider, Peter, |d1940- |tVati. 600 10 Jelinek, Elfriede, |d1946- |tAusgesperrten. 650 0 German fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Austrian fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Families in literature. 650 0 Fascism and literature |zGermany. 650 0 Fascism and literature |zAustria. 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib39617/9609172.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 E0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPT2603.O394 Z745 1995 852 |bebook