Memory Matters ：Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature ( Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies )

Publication subTitle ：Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature

Publication series ：Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

Author： Caroline Schaumann  

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9783110206593

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110202434

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Keyword： Women's literature generation Holocaust (in literature) National Socialism (in literature)

Language： ENG

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Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure a close analysis of two texts that comprise memories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, two that consider memories of the narrators’ parents, and two concerned with the narrators’ grandparents’ past. Focusing on genealogies of women, the book examines the tensions between war and postwar generations against the backdrop of a complicated mother-daughter relationship. Linking memories of Nazi Germany to those of the Holocaust, Schaumann’s approach questions the assumption that German-Gentile and German-Jewish postwar experiences are necessarily diametrically opposed.

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Table of Contents

pp.：  1 – 11

Frontmatter

pp.：  1 – 1

Introduction

pp.：  11 – 15

War Children and Child Survivors

pp.：  15 – 43

Memories and Mourning: Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood

pp.：  43 – 80

Trauma and Testimony: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben

pp.：  80 – 112

The Children of Survivors and Bystanders

pp.：  112 – 149

Barbara Honigmann’s Belated Appropriation of her Jewish Heritage: From Roman von einem Kinde (Novel by a Child) to Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben (A Chapter of My Life)

pp.：  149 – 180

Wibke Bruhns’s Father-Portrait: My Father’s Country: The Story of a German Family

pp.：  180 – 210

The Grandchildren of Nazi Victims, Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Bystanders

pp.：  210 – 237

Images and Imagination: Monika Maron’s Pavel’s Letters

pp.：  237 – 267

Tanja Dückers’s “Sensual Historiography:” Himmelskörper (Celestial Bodies)

pp.：  267 – 303

Backmatter

pp.：  303 – 329

LastPages

pp.：  329 – 361

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