Writing the child : fictions of memory in German postwar literature. Cultural memories ; vol. 18.

Language: English

Published by Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2022

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XIV, 228 pp. A very good copy. - Summary: The child is never just a child. While the image, voice and gaze of the victimized child is a universal symbol of a failing world, it can be an equally potent aesthetic screen for historical obfuscation. Analysing selected works by Dieter Forte, Günter Grass, Gisela Elsner, Hans-Ulrich Treichel and Rachel Seiffert, Writing the Child considers the evolution of German cultural memory concerning wartime trauma and victimhood. In these works, the aesthetically conceived child comes into view as a memory icon, animated as much by collective fantasies as shaped by specific historical moments. Whose suffering has gained importance after the end of World War II? Who claims innocence or responsibility at the time and over time as the Nazi legacy reverberates into the future? Who remains implicated in the legacy of perpetration? In dialogue with the voices of German war children, the Kriegskinder, the texts echo but also contest exculpatory victimologies that have shaped German memory frameworks from the 1940s up to the post-1989 present. - Table of Contents: Introduction: Fictions of Memory -- PART I: The War and Kriegskind Generations -- CHAPTER 1. Kriegskinder Politics: Abiding Victimologies -- CHAPTER 2. The Myth of Knowing Innocence: Dieter Forte's Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen -- CHAPTER 3. Performing Childhood: Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel -- CHAPTER 4. 'The Disgrace of an Untimely Birth': Gisela Elsner's Fliegeralarm -- PART II: The Kriegsenkel Generation -- CHAPTER 5. 'The past does not want to disappear': Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene -- CHAPTER 6. 'Lore', or the Implicated Subject: Rachel Seiffert's Postmemory Work -- EPILOGUE. Memory in a Moment of Danger. ISBN 9781787077225 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1075.…

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Writing the child : fictions of memory in German postwar literature. Cultural memories ; vol. 18.
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Baackmann, Susanne:
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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien: Peter Lang
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2022
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Softcover, 23 cm.
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English
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