After Memory : World War II in Contemporary Eastern European Literatures / edited by Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller, Heike Winkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alphen, Ernst van, contributor, contributor.

Beganović, Davor, 1959- contributor, contributor.

Dubasevych, Roman, contributor, contributor.

Galina, Marii︠a︡, contributor, contributor.

Hagemann, Madlene, contributor, contributor.

Hinrikus, R. (Rutt), contributor, contributor.

Howanitz, Gernot, contributor, contributor.

Kirss, Tiina, 1957- contributor, contributor.

Krause, Stephan, contributor, contributor.

Mihăilescu, Dana, contributor, contributor.

Niżyńska, Joanna, contributor, contributor.

Obermayr, Brigitte, contributor, contributor.

Schwartz, Matthias, contributor, contributor.

Schwartz, Matthias, editor.

Ubertowska, Aleksandra, contributor, contributor.

Heuckelom, Kris van, 1976- contributor, contributor.

Weller, Nina, contributor, contributor.

Weller, Nina, editor.

Winkel, Heike, 1971- contributor, contributor.

Winkel, Heike, 1971- editor.

Young, Stephenie, contributor, contributor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; 29.

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East European literature--History and criticism.

East European literature.

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

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VII, 479 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

After Memory: Introduction

Growing in the Cracks: On Ecologies of the Margins

I Imaginary Adoptions: Family Histories and Personal Legacies

Bodies of Evidence: Memory, the Forensic Imagination and Family Histories about former Yugoslavia

Transnational Aspects of Postmemory in Third-Generation Fiction: The 'Contrapuntal' Cases of Piotr Paziński and Erwin Mortier

Ghost-Writing World War II Memories: Romanian Holocaust Survivors' Life Stories in Post-Cold War Western Societies

Legacies of Stalinism and the Gulag: Manifestations of Trauma and Post Memory

II Revisionist Appropriations: National Belongings and Collective Identities

Is the Past a Secret Language? The Jewish Other and the Holocaust in Iurii Vynnychuk's Novel Tango of Death

Post-Imperial Resentments: Alternative Histories of World War II in Popular Post-Soviet Speculative Fiction

Chetniks and Partisans: Conflicting Narratives in Contemporary Serbian Literature

Delectatio Morosa: Reflections on Affective Compensation, Conflation, and Fantasy in Polish Memory Culture

III Fictional Interventions: Alternate Narratives and Subverted Mythologies

'Spectral Stories': Fictional Re-Inventions of the Holocaust in Contemporary Polish Literature

Counterfactuals and (Counter)memory: Im/possible Modes of 'Undoing' the Great Patriotic War

The 'Gift of Memory' and the 'Gift of Oblivion': Holocaust and World War II in Contemporary Hungarian Literature

De-Mythologising History: On the Fictional and Phantasmatic Dismantling of the Leningrad Blockade Narrative

IV Imaginative Reconfigurations: Average Heroes and Ambivalent Subjectivities

Digging up Skulls, Fighting with Words: On Radka Denemarková's Novel Money from Hitler

Layers of the Crypt: Baltic Women's Postmemory of World War II in Life Stories and Fiction

Bridging the Gaps: The Poetics of Postmemory in the Czech Graphic Novel Alois Nebel

Obsessed with the Past: On the Topicality of the Historical Novel in Eastern Europe Today

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

3110713837

9783110713831

Publisher Number:

40030605331

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