Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture

ISBN-13: 9783110189827 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2006 / 382 str.

Dagmar Wienroder-Skinner; Laurel Cohen-Pfister; Dagmar Wienrvder-Skinner

Opis

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor:
Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Recenzje

"Das hier anzuzeigende Buch ist ein guter und wichtiger Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Bestandsaufnahme der auf die Jahre 1933 bis 1945 bezogenen Erinnerungsformen im Nachwende-Deutschland."Norman P. Franke in: Arbitrium 2/2008

Spis treści

Laurel Cohen-Pfister/Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, Introduction: History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945 Transgenerational Memory Aleida Assmann, Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature; Nikhil Sathe, "Ein Fressen für mein MG": The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's Am BeispieI rneines Bruders; Rachel Halverson, Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe Air War and German Literature Volker Hage, To Write or Remain Silent? The Portrayal of the Air War in German Literature; Susanne Vees-Gulani, The Language of Trauma: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air War; Thomas Fox, Writing Dresden Across the Generations Jewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance Elke Segelcke, Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmann's Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History; James Martin, A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim- Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara; Margit Sinka, The "Different" Holocaust Memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches VierteI: Personal and Collective Remembrance Thematizing Perpetrator/Victim Relationships Transnational Reconciliation Valentina Glajar, Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig; Pawel Lutomski, Acknowledging Each Other As Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of Polish-German Reconciliation; Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, Attempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk Historical Consciousness and the German Present Harald Welzer, The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathers' Past; Brad Prager, The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers; Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification; Daniel Becker, Corning to Terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness

O autorze

Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Gettysburg College,Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA; Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, St. Joseph's University,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.