World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory

ISBN-13: 9780367473730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 238 str.

Jan Lensen

Opis

This book addresses how contemporary prose fiction from Germany, Flanders, and the Netherlands deals with the memory of World War II. More in particular, it offers an investigation of how the temporal distance to the war events affects matters of form and content in these contemporary narratives.

O autorze

Jan Lensen is an affiliated researcher at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie of the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of De foute oorlog: Schuld en nederlaag in het Vlaamse proza over de Tweede Wereldoorlog (2014) and has widely published about contemporary Dutch and German literature and cultural memory in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Dutch Literature, Comparative Literature and Modern Language Review.