Schmitz (German studies, U. of Warwick) examines the literature of the reunified Germany since 1990 and has found some reconfigurations in the ways writers narrate the German experience of National Socialism. He finds there have been shifts in the ways writers approach the subject; however, the overwhelming force of the victims and the questions ab
Schmitz (German studies, U. of Warwick) examines the literature of the reunified Germany since 1990 and has found some reconfigurations in the ways wr...
The re-emergence of the issue of wartime suffering to the fore of German public discourse represents the greatest shift in German memory culture since the Historikerstreit of the 1980s. The (international) attention and debates triggered by, for example, W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur, Gunter Grass's Im Krebsgang, Jorg Friedrich's Der Brand testify to a change in focus away from the victims of National Socialism to the traumatic experience of the 'perpetrator collective' and its legacies. The volume brings together German, English and Israeli literary and film scholars and historians...
The re-emergence of the issue of wartime suffering to the fore of German public discourse represents the greatest shift in German memory culture since...
Seit ungefahr zwei Jahrzehnten gibt es in der deutschen Kulturlandschaft, im literarischen und akademischen Betrieb eine zunehmende Sensibilisierung fur den Beitrag von Schriftstellern und Schriftstellerinnen zur Gegenwartsliteratur, deren Muttersprache nicht, oder nicht nur, deutsch ist und die nach Deutschland immigriert oder Kinder bzw. Enkel von Immigranten sind. Dieser Band prasentiert eine Reihe von Aufsatzen zur zeitgenossischen transnationalen deutschsprachigen Literatur und Kultur. Neben Aufsatzen zu einzelnen Schriftstellern (Imran Ayata, Yade Kara, Feridun Zaimoglu, Rafik Schami,...
Seit ungefahr zwei Jahrzehnten gibt es in der deutschen Kulturlandschaft, im literarischen und akademischen Betrieb eine zunehmende Sensibilisierung f...
Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in the public and private sphere. This shift in German memory culture from a focus on responsibility for the Holocaust to a focus on wartime suffering has attracted a lot of critical attention over the past decade, in both Cultural and Literary Studies and History. This volume brings together British, German, Dutch and American scholars from the fields of Cultural Studies, History and Sociology to address the national and international significance...
Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in ...
