Fuchs / Cosgrove / Grote German Memory Contests

The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57113-676-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 75, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuchs, Anne

Cosgrove, Mary

Grote, Georg

Weitere Mitwirkende

Plowman, Andrew

Fuchs, Anne

Gelbin, Cathy

Paver, Chloe

Lorenz, Dagmar C. G.

Boa, Elizabeth

Michaels, Jennifer E.

Long, Jonathan J

Cosgrove, Mary

Fiedler, Matthias

Fritzsche, Peter

Woods, Roger

Willer, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Cristoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Dagmar Leupold, and Ulla HahnDagmar Leupold, and Ulla Hahn - 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 Stück langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer": The Exhibition Fotofeldpost as Riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition"Exhibition" - Chloe 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 - Jonathan 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 Gelbin
Multi-Ethnicity and Cultural Identity: Afro-German Women Writers' Struggle for Identity in Post-Unification GermanyGermany - 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

Über Autor(innen)

Cosgrove Mary:
Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary
and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,
2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).Plowman Andrew:
Andrew Plowman is Senior Lecturer in
German at the University of Liverpool.Cosgrove Mary:
Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary
and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,
2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).