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Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Stuart Taberner (Ed.)
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Paperback. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 268 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Taberner, Stuart; Berger, Karina. First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight: 434.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for ... Read more
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135575
SKU
V9781571135575
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About Stuart Taberner (Ed.)
STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds. Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom ... Read more
Reviews for Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
[A]n impressive testament to collaborative research. The . . . essays . . . all offer highly stimulating discussions of individual texts and topics, and can be read as self-contained pieces, but the book is far more than the sum of its parts: the coherence of its argument suggests not only masterly editing, but also the real benefits of scholars ... Read more