Phantoms of war in contemporary German literature, films and discourse : the politics of memory

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Title:

Author:

Fuchs, Anne.

ISBN:

9780230279650

Personal Author:

Fuchs, Anne.

Publication Information:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010.

Physical Description:

xiv, 254 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

New perspectives in German studies

New perspectives in German studies.

General Note:

Previous ed.: 2008. With a new foreword.

Contents:

Family narratives between vernacular and official memory -- Generational conflict and masculinity in Vèaterliteratur by Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Dagmar Leupold and Ulla Hahn -- Family narratives and postmemory : Gèunter Grass's Im Krebsgang, Tanja Dèucker's Himmelskèorper and Marcel Beyer's Spione -- Heimat and territory in Thomas Medicus's In den Augen meines GroÇvaters and Stephan Wackwitz's Ein unsichtbares Land -- Narrating resistance to the Third Reich : museum discourse, autobiography, fiction and film -- Hitler youth autobiographies: Gèunter Grass's Beim Hèauten der Zwiebel and Joachim Fest's Ich nicht -- Germany as a threshold culture.

Subject Term:

German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Motion pictures -- Germany -- History.

First person narrative -- History and criticism.

Discourse analysis -- Germany.

Collective memory -- Germany.

Collective memory in literature.

Political culture -- Germany.

German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Motion pictures and the war.

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Summary

Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical evaluation of generational discourse.