Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic

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Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic

Edited by: Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger
With contributions by: Caroline Schaumann , Colette Lawson , David Clarke , Elizabeth Boa , Frank Finlay , Helen Finch , Helmut Schmitz , Karina Berger , Katharina Hall , Kathrin Schodel , Mary Cosgrove , Rick Crownshaw , Stephen Brockmann and Stuart Taberner

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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Volume 33 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.

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Taberner Stuart :

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.Schaumann Caroline :

CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor and Chairperson of German Studies at Emory College, GA.Finch Helen :

HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds.Cosgrove Mary :

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 in European letters; and literary
and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House,
2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).Brockmann Stephen :

STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.Taberner Stuart :

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

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Literary Studies German Literature German Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Karina Berger and Stuart Taberner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1: W. G. Sebald and German Wartime Suffering Stephen Brockmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2: The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings Colette Lawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3: Expulsion Novels of the 1950s: More than Meets the Eye? Karina Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4: “In this prison of the guard room”: Heinrich Böll’s Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939–1945 in the Context of Contemporary Debates Frank Finlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
5: Family, Heritage, and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm Helmut Schmitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
6: Lost Heimat in Generational Novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath Elizabeth Boa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
7: “A Different Family Story”: German Wartime Suffering in Women’s Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun Caroline auman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
8: The Place of German Wartime Suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Family Texts David Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
9: “Why only now?”: The Representation of German Wartime Suffering as a “Memory Taboo” in Günter Grass’s Novella Im Krebsgang Katharina Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
10: Rereading Der Vorleser, Remembering the Perpetrator Rick Crownshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
11: Narrating German Suffering in the Shadow of Holocaust Victimology: W. G. Sebald, Contemporary Trauma Theory, and Dieter Forte’s Air Raids Epic Mary Cosgrove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
12: Günter Grass’s Account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer? Helen Finch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
13: Jackboots and Jeans: The Private and the Political in Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders Frank Finlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
14: Memory-Work in Recent German Novels: What (if Any) Limits Remain on Empathy with the “German Experience” of the Second World War? Stuart Taberner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
15: “Secondary Suffering” and Victimhood: The “Other” of German Identity in Bernhard Schlink’s “Die Beschneidung” and Maxim Biller’s “Harlem Holocaust” Kathrin Schödel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

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