European memories of the Second World War. (1999)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett, and Claire Gorrara.
• Other Names: Peitsch, Helmut, 1948-; Burdett, Charles, 1966-; Gorrara, Claire
• Contents: EUROPEAN MEMORIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I. THE GERMAN SOLDIER'S MEMORY; 1. PRIVATE AND PUBLIC FILTERS: MEMORIES OF WAR IN HEINRICH BÖLL'S FICTION AND NONFICTION; PART II. THE RESISTANCE MEMORY; 2. ORDINARY HEROINES: RESISTANCE AND ROMANCE IN THE WAR FICTION OF ELSA TRIOLET; 3. 'THIS BOOK DOES NOT WANT TO BE A WORK OF ART. THIS BOOK IS TRUTH. 'THE DIARIES OF RUTH ANDREAS-FRIEDRICH; 4. A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN GIOVANNA ZANGRANDI'S RESISTANCE NARRATIVES; The Male Resister 5. vercors -- writing the unspeakable: from le silence de la mer (1942) to la puissance du jour (1951)6. 'a history full of holes'? france and the french resistance in the work of stephan hermlin; 7. war, civil war and the problem of violence in calvino and pavese; 8. imagining losers in bufalino's diceria dell'untore; part iii. the fascist's memory; 9. memory and chronicle: louis-ferdinand céline and the d'un château l'autre trilogy; 10. portrait of the poet as a dead man. ernst jünger's writing in the second world war: strahlungen 11. changing identities through memory: malaparte's self-figurations in kaputtpart iv. the victim's memory; 12. reviewing memory: wiesel, testimony and self-reading; 13. primo levi. the duty of memory; 14. la douleur: duras, amnesia and desire; 15. myth, memory, testimony, jewishness in grete weil's meine schwester antigone; part v. the media of memory: may 1968 and cinema; 16. l'armée des ombres and le chagrin et la pitié: reconfigurations of law, legalities and the state in post-1968 france; 17. alexander kluge:germany -- an experience of words and images 18. fascism and anti-fascism reviewed: generations, history and film in italy after 1968part vi. women's writing and the quest for the father; 19. remembering the collaborating father in marie chaix's les lauriers du lac de constance and evelyne le garrec's la rive allemande; 20. seeing the father: memory and identity construction in elisabeth plessen's mitteilung an den adel; 21. intimations of patriarchy: memories of wartime japan indacia maraini's bagheria; part vii. a child's memory; 22. a child in time: patrick modiano and the memory of the occupation 23. childhood memory and moral responsibility: christa wolf's kindheitsmuster24. strategies for remembering: auschwitz, mother and writing in edith bruck; part viii. after the cold war: european literature and the politics of memory; 25. trauma and absence; 26. nonrational discourse in a work of reason: peter weiss's anti-fascist novel die ästhetik des widerstands; 27. fifty years on: german children of the war remember; 28. memories of resistance, resistances of memory; notes on contributors; bibliography; index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxi, 333 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.93358; 940.53; World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; War stories -- History and criticism; Autobiography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; HISTORY -- Europe -- General; Autobiography; French literature; German literature; Italian literature; War and literature; War stories; Tweede Wereldoorlog; Letterkunde; Italiaans; Duits; Frans; Weltkrieg <1939-1945, Motiv>; Literatur; Deutsch; Französisch; Italienisch; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Personal narratives; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782389637; 1782389636
• Related ISBNs: 1571819363; 9781571819369
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-325) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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