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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779836203321

Autore

Rinner Susanne

Titolo

The German student movement and the literary imagination [[electronic resource] ] : transnational memories of protest and dissent / / Susanne Rinner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-755-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Protest, Culture & Society ; ; 9

Protest, culture and society ; ; v. 9

Disciplina

83/.91409

Soggetti

German fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Student movements in literature

Opposition (Political science) in literature

Social conflict in literature

Memory in literature

Literature and transnationalism

Social change in literature

Literature and society - Germany - History - 20th century

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Trans/national memories of 1968 -- Remember? 1968 in German fiction -- Forget it? 1968 in East Germany -- Transatlantic encounters between Germany and the United States as intercultural exchange and generational conflict -- Transnational memories: 1968 and Turkish-German authors -- Conclusion. Continued taboos, confirmed canons.

Sommario/riassunto

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi OĢˆzdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of



memories that reshape readers' understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions tha