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Title:

German memory contests : the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990 / edited by Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, and Georg Grote.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

vi, 344 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Germany--Psychological aspects.--20th century--Psychological aspects.
Collective memory--Germany.
Group identity--Germany--History--20th century.
Germany--Historiography.--1990---Historiography.

Other Authors:

Fuchs, Anne.
Cosgrove, Mary.
Grote, Georg, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-327) and index.

Contents:

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 Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Ulla Hahn, and Dagmar Leupold / 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 Stuck langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer" : the exhibition Fotofeldpost as riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition" / Chloe E.M. 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 / J.J. 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 S. Gelbin -- Multi-ethnicity and cultural identity : Afro-German women writers' struggle for identity in postunification Germany / 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 -- A Heimat in ruins and the ruins as Heimat : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Anne Fuchs.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

ISBN:

9781571133243 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1571133240 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006007786

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)