04827nam 2200805 a 450 991078277780332120200520144314.01-282-19663-497866121966383-11-020659-510.1515/9783110206593(CKB)1000000000691497(EBL)364703(OCoLC)476197219(SSID)ssj0000201131(PQKBManifestationID)11184545(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201131(PQKBWorkID)10232426(PQKB)11421734(MiAaPQ)EBC364703(DE-B1597)34320(OCoLC)560639141(OCoLC)775644234(DE-B1597)9783110206593(Au-PeEL)EBL364703(CaPaEBR)ebr10256415(CaONFJC)MIL219663(EXLCZ)99100000000069149720080128d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMemory matters[electronic resource] generational responses to Germany's Nazi past in recent women's literature /Caroline SchaumannBerlin ;New York W. de Gruyterc20081 online resource (360 p.)Interdisciplinary German cultural studies,1861-8030 ;v. 4Description based upon print version of record.3-11-020243-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-345). Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- War Children and Child Survivors -- Memories and Mourning: Christa Wolf s Patterns of Childhood -- Trauma and Testimony: Ruth Klüger s weiter leben -- The Children of Survivors and Bystanders -- Barbara Honigmann s Belated Appropriation of her Jewish Heritage: From Roman von einem Kinde (Novel by a Child) to Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben (A Chapter of My Life) -- Wibke Bruhns s Father-Portrait: My Father s Country: The Story of a German Family -- The Grandchildren of Nazi Victims, Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Bystanders -- Images and Imagination: Monika Maron s Pavel s Letters -- Tanja Dückers s Sensual Historiography:Ž Himmelskörper (Celestial Bodies) -- BackmatterMemory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter of Jewish émigrés (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Dückers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of inspiration, reverberation, refraction, incongruity, and ambiguity. Focusing on genealogies of women, the book delineates a different cultural memory than the counting of (male-inflected) generations and a male-dominated Holocaust and postwar literature canon. It examines intergenerational conflicts and the negotiation of memories against the backdrop of a complicated mother-daughter relationship that follows unpredictable patterns and provokes both discord and empathy. Schaumann's approach questions the assumption that German-gentile and German-Jewish postwar experiences are necessarily diametrically opposed (i.e. respond to a "negative symbiosis") and uncovers intersections and continuities in addition to conflicts. Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ;v. 4.German literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismGerman literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCollective memory and literatureWomen and literatureGermanyHistory20th centuryNational socialism in literatureHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureHolocaust (in literature).National Socialism (in literature).Women's literature.generation.German literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticism.Collective memory and literature.Women and literatureHistoryNational socialism in literature.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.830.9/35843086GN 1701rvkSchaumann Caroline1969-1547603MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782777803321Memory matters3804071UNINA