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Narratives of trauma : discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective / edited by Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- German monitor ; no. 73.
- German monitor ; no. 73
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Historiography--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War victims--Germany--Congresses.
- War victims.
- Population transfers--Germans--Congresses.
- Population transfers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Germany--Congresses.
- Collective memory--Germany--Congresses.
- Collective memory.
- History--Psychological aspects--Congresses.
- History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war--Congresses.
- War and motion pictures.
- History--Psychological aspects.
- Population transfers--Germans.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
- Summary:
- Noting that the Holocaust is now institutionalized in public commemorations in Germany, Schmitz (German, U. of Warwick) and Seidel-Arpaci (Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia U.) introduce 11 essays that reflect critical debates on a virtual self-inflicted taboo on representations of German national suffering in World War II. Drawing on differing concepts of trauma and mourning in memory studies, interdisciplinary authors discuss the theme of German victimhood in postwar fictional and nonfictional textual and visual narratives. Perspectives include German-Catholic, German historians on the Allied bombing, lesbians/feminists opposed to patriarchal Nazism, Dutch, and Israeli cinema (e.g., Walk on Water, 2004). Photos show "inclusive" monuments for all Germans. One essay is in untranslated German. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- "The chapters in this volume originate in a conference held at Leeds University in summer 2008"--P. 11.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789042033191
- 9042033193
- OCLC:
- 714734838
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