German memory contests : the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990 /

German memory contests : the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990 / edited by Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, and Georg Grote.

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Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public discourse that engage with the long-term effects of National Socialism across generations. Taking issue with the concept of &#...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Fuchs, Anne, Cosgrove, Mary, Grote, Georg, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Collective memory > Germany.
Group identity > Germany > History > 20th century.
Civilization > Psychological aspects.
Collective memory.
Group identity.
Historiography.
Germany > Civilization > 20th century > Psychological aspects.
Germany > History > 1990- > Historiography.
Germany.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Germany's memory contests and the management of the past / Anne Fuchs and Mary Cosgrove
  • What exactly is Vergangenheitsbewältigung? : narrative and its insufficiency in postwar Germany / Peter Fritzsche
  • The tinderbox of memory : generation and masculinity in Väterliteratur by Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Ulla Hahn, and Dagmar Leupold / Anne Fuchs
  • Telling it how it wasn't : familial allegories of wish-fulfillment in postunification Germany / Elizabeth Boa
  • Being translated : exile, childhood, and multilingualism in G.-A. Goldschmidt and W.G. Sebald / Stefan Willer
  • "Ein Stuck langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer" : the exhibition Fotofeldpost as riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition" / Chloe E.M. Paver
  • German crossroads : visions of the past in German cinema after reunification / Matthias Fiedler
  • Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe : photography, narrative, and the claims of postmemory / J.J. Long
  • Imagined identities : children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in literature / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz
  • Of stories and histories : Golem figures in post-1989 German and Austrian culture / Cathy S. Gelbin
  • Multi-ethnicity and cultural identity : Afro-German women writers' struggle for identity in postunification Germany / Jennifer E. Michaels
  • The anxiety of German influence : affiliation, rejection, and Jewish identity in W.G. Sebald's work / Mary Cosgrove
  • Between "restauration" and "Nierentisch" : the 1950s in Ludwig Harig, F.C. Delius, and Thomas Hettche / Andrew Plowman
  • On forgetting and remembering : the new right since German unification / Roger Woods
  • A Heimat in ruins and the ruins as Heimat : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Anne Fuchs.

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