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Writing the Child

Fictions of Memory in German Postwar Literature

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

The child is never just a child. While the image, voice and gaze of the victimized child is a universal symbol of a failing world, it can be an equally potent aesthetic screen for historical obfuscation. Analysing selected works by Dieter Forte, Günter Grass, Gisela Elsner, Hans-Ulrich Treichel and Rachel Seiffert, Writing the Child considers the evolution of German cultural memory concerning wartime trauma and victimhood. In these works, the aesthetically conceived child comes into view as a memory icon, animated as much by collective fantasies as shaped by specific historical moments. Whose suffering has gained importance after the end of World War II? Who claims innocence or responsibility at the time and over time as the Nazi legacy reverberates into the future? Who remains implicated in the legacy of perpetration? In dialogue with the voices of German war children, the Kriegskinder, the texts echo but also contest exculpatory victimologies that have shaped German memory frameworks from the 1940s up to the post-1989 present.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-78707-722-5 / 978-1787077225 / 9781787077225

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2022

Seiten: 228

Auflage: 1

Reihe herausgegeben von Katia Pizzi
Autor(en): Susanne Baackmann

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