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Silence and acts of memory : a postwar discourse on literature, history, Anna Seghers, and women in the Third Reich / Birgit Maier-Katkin.
Van Pelt Library PT2635.A27 Z745 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maier-Katkin, Birgit, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983--Criticism and interpretation.
- Seghers, Anna.
- Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983.
- Exiles' writings, German--History and criticism.
- Exiles' writings, German.
- Collective memory--Germany.
- Collective memory.
- National socialism and women.
- National socialism and literature.
- Literature and history.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Germany.
- Literature and history--Germany.
- National socialism and literature--Germany.
- National socialism and women--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Anna Seghers: a woman's voice in literature and history
- Literature, history and mnemonic voids
- History, literature and past actuality
- Silence and mnemonic voids
- An attempt to pierce silence
- Text and reader: a matter of social discourse
- Silence at the heart of postwar discourse
- The emergence of silence
- The perseverance of silence
- The past as silence: a generational discourse
- History, literature, and the daily lives of ordinary people
- Piercing the silence of everyday life
- Ceremony and mnemonic construction
- Piercing the silence: women and daily life
- Seghers' literature: mnemonic flashes of daily life
- Confronting the silence
- Women in Nazi society
- Mothers in Hitler's Germany
- Women as Nazi sympathizers
- Reflections on daily life and the banality of evil.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838756646
- 9780838756645
- OCLC:
- 70267183
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