| German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past: Representations of National Socialism in Contemporary Germanic Literature Contributor(s): Schmitz, Helmut (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0754601129 ISBN-13: 9780754601128 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $45.53 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | European - German - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 830.935 |
| LCCN: 2001087117 |
| Series: Warwick Studies in the Humanities |
| Physical Information: (0.87 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbew ltigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through G 1/4nter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation. |
