Traumaland : eine Spurensuche in deutscher Vergangenheit und Gegenwart / Asal Dardan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dardan, Asal, author.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany.

Historiography.

Psychic trauma--Social aspects.

Psychic trauma.

History--Psychological aspects.

History.

Memory--Political aspects--Germany.

Memory.

Collective memory--Germany.

Collective memory.

Germany--History.

Germany.

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Memory--Political aspects.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Originalausgabe.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2025.

Summary:

Not being able to wipe away the blood, not being able to erase the fact that it has flowed. Making the crime and thus also the guilt visible, even if the perpetrators never raised their own hands and the victims remained invisible: blood is on your hands. This is how Asal Dardan explains the necessity of remembrance, the responsibility of future generations. In Traumaland, she creates a new topography of Germany, searches for traces, and reveals parallel and contrasting experiences in the immigrant society. The past painfully looms over our present; Nazi crimes find a gruesome echo today in racist acts of violence, but also in the traumatic experiences of minorities. Who makes German history? Who bears responsibility for past guilt? Which memories are told, and which remain unheard? Asal Dardan confronts entrenched discourses of memory with their search for connections in the hope of a shared memory that accommodates diverse realities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287).

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783498003487

3498003488

OCLC:

1513493935