German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past
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Austrian identity discourse
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Bad Kissingen
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contemporary Germanic literature
Der Vorleser
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Die Ausgewanderten
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GDR Literature
German culture
German Survivor
Hitler youth generation
Holocaust remembrance
Ich Liebe Dich
intergenerational trauma
kissingen
legacy
Life Long Theme
literary responses to National Socialism
Luftkrieg Und Literatur
martin
memory studies
Mitscherlich's Model
Mitscherlich’s Model
Nach Der Natur
national identity
national socialism
National Socialist Past
National Socialist Period
NATO Decision
nazi
Nutzen Und Nachteile Der Historie
postwar German literature
schlink
Sebald's Work
Sebald’s Work
Tea Caddy
VergangenheitsbewA?ltigung
Vom Nutzen Und Nachteile Der
walser
West Germany
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754601128
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through Günter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.
Helmut Schmitz, University of Warwick, UK Bill Niven, Julian Preece, Stuart Taberner, Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, Juliet Wigmore, Helmut Schmitz, Anna M. Parkinson, Susan Tebbutt.
