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Title Victims and perpetrators, 1933-1945 : (re)presenting the past in post-unification culture / edited by Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner
Published Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2006]
©2006

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Description xi, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Series Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 ; v. 2
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies. 1861-8030 ; v. 2
Contents Introduction : history and the memory of suffering : rethinking 1933-1945 / Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner -- Limits of understanding : generational identities in recent German memory literature / Aleida Assmann -- "Ein Fressen für mein MG" : the problem of German suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders / Nikhil Sathe -- Mothers, memories, and mnemonics : Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe / Rachel Halverson -- To write or remain silent? : the portrayal of the air war in German literature / Volker Hage -- The language of trauma : Dieter Forte's memories of the air war / Susanne Vees-Gulani -- Writing Dresden across the generations / Thomas Fox -- Breaking the taboo : Barbara Honigmann's narrative quest for a German-Jewish (family) history / Elke Segelcke -- A world turned upside down : role reversals in the victim-perpetrator complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus kitahara / James Martin -- The "different" Holocaust memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches Viertel : personal and collective remembrance thematizing perpetrator-victim relationships / Margit Sinka -- Victims and perpetrators : representations of the German-Czech conflict in texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig / Valentina Glajar -- Acknowledging each other as victims : an unmet challenge in the process of Polish-German reconciliation / Pawel Lutomski -- Attempts at (re)conciliation : Polish-German relations in literary texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk / Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner -- The collatoral damage of enlightenment : how grandchildren understand the history of National Socialist crimes and their grandfathers' past / Harald Welzer -- The haunted screen (again) : the historical unconscious of contemporary German thrillers / Brad Prager -- Rape, war, and outrage : changing perceptions on German victimhood in the period of post-unification / Laurel Cohen-Pfister -- Coming to terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung : Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo war, and the transformation of German historical consciousness / Daniel Becker
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Memory -- Political aspects -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Conflict of generations -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Jews in literature.
SUBJECT Germany -- Civilization -- Jewish influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054487
Germany -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007651 -- History -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006168
Author Cohen-Pfister, Laurel, 1957-
Wienröder-Skinner, Dagmar.
LC no. 2006024670
ISBN 3110189828 alkaline paper
9783110189827 alkaline paper