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1 online resource (171 pages) |
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Remembering the war years in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic from the late 1950s to 1980 -- A new mode of travel : representations of deportation in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après and Jorge Semprun's Le grand voyage -- Visiting the camps in 1960s and 1970s travelogues by Horst Krüger, Günter Kunert, Rolf Schneider, and Peter Weiss -- Fictional representation of the Holocaust in H.G. Adler's Eine Reise and Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance -- Conversations with the father in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel, Bernward Vesper's Die Reise, and Patrick Modiano's Les Boulevards de ceinture -- German origins and exile : Évelyne Le Garrec's La rive allemande de ma mémoire and Maren Sell's Mourir d'absence |
| Summary |
"The Second World War was a common experience of cultural and historical rupture for many European countries, but studies of this period and its afterimages often remain locked in national frameworks. Jones's comparative study of national memory cultures argues for a more nuanced view of responses to shared issues of remembrance. Focusing on the 1960s and 1970s, two decades of great change and debate in French and German discourses of memory, it investigates literary representations of the Second World War, and in particular the Holocaust, from France and both Germanics. The study encompasses thirteen works representing a variety of genres and divergent perspectives, and authors include Jorge Semprun, Peter Weiss, Georges Perec and Bernward Vesper. Addressing the underlying theme of travel as a means of exploring the past, Jones contrasts the journeys made by deportees and post-war visitors to the camps with the use of the journey as a literary device."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cardiff University, 2003) presented under the title: Journeys into the world with the baggage of the past: representations of travel and memory in 1960s and 1970s French and German language literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Literature and the war
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Literature and the war
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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French literature
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German literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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War and literature
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France
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351196130 |
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1351196138 |
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