German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse Since 1990 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571134425 ISBN 13: 9781571134424

Publisher: Camden House, 2010

Synopsis

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

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Review:

Winner of the 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The studies collected in this volume succeed in substantiating the overarching claim of a pluralization of memorialization and in illuminating its facets. ARBITRIUM

This volume presents a timely and comprehensive summary of the current interest ... in post-unification discourses of memory in relation to Germany's various "pasts", above all the Nazi past.... This volume makes a significant contribution to the field of cultural memory and to the study of contemporary responses to Germany's multifaceted past. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

The strength of this book lies in the fact that the issue of German memory is an important current topic in Germanistik and German Studies and will likely continue to flourish as more primary sources on this topic are published in Germany and Austria. MONATSHEFTE

Of particular interest are essays on underresearched topics: post-Shoah Jewish writing, Afro-German writers in postunification Germany, and strategies of the New Right in Germany. ...A splendid volume. CHOICE

The book contains many thought-provoking and balanced essays as well as a very helpful critical apparatus for postgraduates working on self-reflective German literature and/or film of the 20th century. GERMANISTIK IN IRELAND

About the Author:

Anne Fuchs is professor of modern German literature and culture at University College Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1571134425
• ISBN 13: 9781571134424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Fuchs Anne, Cosgrove Mary, Grote Georg