German memory contests : the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990 /: the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, and Georg Grote.
• Other Names: Fuchs, Anne; Cosgrove, Mary; Grote, Georg, 1966-
• Contents: Introduction : Germany's memory contests and the management of the past / Anne Fuchs and Mary Cosgrove -- What exactly is Vergangenheitsbewältigung? : narrative and its insufficiency in postwar Germany / Peter Fritzsche -- The tinderbox of memory : generation and masculinity in Väterliteratur by Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Ulla Hahn, and Dagmar Leupold / Anne Fuchs -- Telling it how it wasn't : familial allegories of wish-fulfillment in postunification Germany / Elizabeth Boa -- Being translated : exile, childhood, and multilingualism in G.-A. Goldschmidt and W.G. Sebald / Stefan Willer -- "Ein Stuck langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer" : the exhibition Fotofeldpost as riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition" / Chloe E.M. Paver -- German crossroads : visions of the past in German cinema after reunification / Matthias Fiedler -- Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe : photography, narrative, and the claims of postmemory / J.J. Long -- Imagined identities : children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in literature / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Of stories and histories : Golem figures in post-1989 German and Austrian culture / Cathy S. Gelbin -- Multi-ethnicity and cultural identity : Afro-German women writers' struggle for identity in postunification Germany / Jennifer E. Michaels -- The anxiety of German influence : affiliation, rejection, and Jewish identity in W.G. Sebald's work / Mary Cosgrove -- Between "restauration" and "Nierentisch" : the 1950s in Ludwig Harig, F.C. Delius, and Thomas Hettche / Andrew Plowman -- On forgetting and remembering : the new right since German unification / Roger Woods -- A Heimat in ruins and the ruins as Heimat : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur / Anne Fuchs.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 344 pages)
• Subjects: 306.0943; Collective memory -- Germany; Group identity -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Mémoire collective -- Allemagne; Identité collective -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General; Civilization -- Psychological aspects; Collective memory; Group identity; Historiography; Germany -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Psychological aspects; Germany -- History -- 1990- -- Historiography; Allemagne -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle -- Aspect psychologique; Allemagne -- Histoire -- 1990- -- Historiographie; Germany; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571136763; 1571136762
• Related ISBNs: 1571133240
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-327) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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