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Title Narratives of trauma : discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective / edited by Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations
Series German monitor ; no. 73
German monitor ; no. 73.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. History and Historiography; 2. Public Memory and Mourning; 3. Visual and Literary Representation; 4. International Perspectives; List of Contributors; Index
Summary Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in the public and private sphere. This shift in German memory culture from a focus on responsibility for the Holocaust to a focus on wartime suffering has attracted a lot of critical attention over the past decade, in both Cultural and Literary Studies and History. This volume brings together British, German, Dutch and American scholars from the fields of Cultural Studies, History and Sociology to address the national and international significance of discourses of 'German wartime suffering' in post-war and contemporary Germany. The focus of this interdisciplinary volume is both on the historical roots of the 'Germans as victims' narratives and the forms of their continuing existence in contemporary public memory and culture. The first three sections of this volume explore the conditions of German victim discourses in a variety of media and public arenas from historiography, sociology, literature and film to monuments, civil defence bunkers and local public memory. The final section sets the contemporary re-articulation of German wartime suffering in an international context with respect to its reception and its reflection in both Western and Eastern Europe and Israel
Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in the public and private sphere. This shift in German memory culture from a focus on responsibility for the Holocaust to a focus on wartime suffering has attracted a lot of critical attention over the past decade, in both Cultural and Literary Studies and History. This volume brings together British, German, Dutch and American scholars from the fields of Cultural Studies, History and Sociology to address the national and international significance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English, with one contribution in German
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Historiography -- Congresses
War victims -- Germany -- Congresses
Population transfers -- Germans -- Congresses
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- Congresses
Collective memory -- Germany -- Congresses
History -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war -- Congresses
World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Collective memory
Destruction and pillage
Historiography
History -- Psychological aspects
Population transfers -- Germans
War and literature
War and motion pictures
War victims
Germany
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Schmitz, Helmut.
Seidel-Arpacı, Annette
LC no. 2011403148
ISBN 9789042033207
9042033207
1283162148
9781283162142
9786613162144
6613162140