| Description |
xxxi, 333 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Studying European Literary Memories / Helmut Peitsch -- I. The German Soldier's Memory. 1. Private and Public Filters: Memories of War in Heinrich Boll's Fiction and Nonfiction / J. H. Reid -- II. The Resistance Memory. 2. Ordinary Heroines: Resistance and Romance in the War Fiction of Elsa Triolet / Diana Holmes. 3. 'This Book Does Not Want to Be a Work of Art. This Book Is Truth.' The Diaries of Ruth Andreas-Friedrich / Irmela von der Luhe. 4. A Woman's Perspective: Autobiography and History in Giovanna Zangrandi's Resistance Narratives / Penny Morris. 5. Vercors - Writing the Unspeakable: From Le Silence de la mer (1942) to La Puissance du jour (1951) / William Kidd. 6. 'A History Full of Holes'? France and the French Resistance in the Work of Stephan Hermlin / Dennis Tate. 7. War, Civil War and the Problem of Violence in Calvino and Pavese / Sarah Morgan. 8. Imagining Losers in Bufalino's Diceria dell'untore / Peter Hainsworth -- III. The Fascist's Memory. 9. Memory and Chronicle: Louis-Ferdinand Celine and the D'un chateau l'autre Trilogy / Nicholas Hewitt. 10. Portrait of the Poet as a Dead Man. Ernst Junger's Writing in the Second World War: Strahlungen / Justus Fetscher. 11. Changing Identities Through Memory: Malaparte's Self-figurations in Kaputt / Charles Burdett -- IV. The Victim's Memory. 12. Reviewing Memory: Wiesel, Testimony and Self-reading / Colin Davis. 13. Primo Levi. The Duty of Memory / Robert Gordon. 14. La Douleur: Duras, Amnesia and Desire / Emma Wilson. 15. Myth, Memory, Testimony, Jewishness in Grete Weil's Meine Schwester Antigone / Moray McGowan -- V. The Media of Memory: May 1968 and Cinema. 16. L'Armee des ombres and Le Chagrin et la pitie: Reconfigurations of Law, Legalities and the State in Post-1968 France / Margaret Atack. 17. Alexander Kluge: Germany - An Experience of Words and Images / Klaus R. Scherpe. 18. Fascism and Anti-fascism Reviewed: Generations, History and Film in Italy after 1968 / David Forgacs -- VI. Women's Writing and the Quest for the Father. 19. Remembering the Collaborating Father in Marie Chaix's Les Lauriers du lac de Constance and Evelyne Le Garrec's La Rive allemande de ma memoire / Claire Gorrara. 20. Seeing the Father: Memory and Identity Construction in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel / Anne Moss. 21. Intimations of Patriarchy: Memories of Wartime Japan in Dacia Maraini's Bagheria / Judith Bryce -- VII. A Child's Memory. 22. A Child in Time: Patrick Modiano and the Memory of the Occupation / Alan Morris. 23. Childhood Memory and Moral Responsibility: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster / Chris Weedon. 24. Strategies for Remembering: Auschwitz, Mother and Writing in Edith Bruck / Adalgisa Giorgio -- VIII. After the Cold War: European Literature and the Politics of Memory. 25. Trauma and Absence / Omer Bartov. 26. Nonrational Discourse in a Work of Reason: Peter Weiss's Anti-fascist Novel Die Asthetik des Widerstands / Robert Cohen. 27. Fifty Years On: German Children of the War Remember / Jost Hermand. 28. Memories of Resistance, Resistances of Memory / Luisa Passerini |
| Summary |
"During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography and documentary, with a focus on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [302]-325) and index |
| Subject |
War in literature.
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Autobiography.
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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War stories -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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| Author |
Gorrara, Claire.
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Peitsch, Helmut, 1948-
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Burdett, Charles, 1966-
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| LC no. |
97031897 |
| ISBN |
1571819541 |
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1571819363 acid-free paper |
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