Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE ix
4. INTRODUCTION: STUDYING EUROPEAN LITERARY MEMORIES xiii
5. PART I THE GERMAN SOLDIER’S MEMORY
6. 1 PRIVATE AND PUBLIC FILTERS: MEMORIES OF WAR IN HEINRICH BÖLL’S FICTION AND NONFICTION 1
7. PART II THE RESISTANCE MEMORY
8. The Female Resister
9. 2 ORDINARY HEROINES: RESISTANCE AND ROMANCE IN THE WAR FICTION OF ELSA TRIOLET 11
10. 3 ‘THIS BOOK DOES NOT WANT TO BE A WORK OF ART. THIS BOOK IS TRUTH.’ THE DIARIES OF RUTH ANDREAS-FRIEDRICH 23
11. 4 A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN GIOVANNA ZANGRANDI’S RESISTANCE NARRATIVES 35
12. The Male Resister
13. 5 VERCORS – WRITING THE UNSPEAKABLE: FROM LE SILENCE DE LA MER (1942) TO LA PUISSANCE DU JOUR (1951) 45
14. 6 ‘A HISTORY FULL OF HOLES’? FRANCE AND THE FRENCH RESISTANCE IN THE WORK OF STEPHAN HERMLIN 55
15. 7 WAR, CIVIL WAR AND THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE IN CALVINO AND PAVESE 67
16. 8 IMAGINING LOSERS IN BUFALINO’S DICERIA DELL’UNTORE 78
17. PART III THE FASCIST’S MEMORY
18. 9 MEMORY AND CHRONICLE: LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE AND THE D’UN CHÂTEAU L’AUTRE TRILOGY 87
19. 10 PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A DEAD MAN. ERNST JÜNGER’S WRITING IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: STRAHLUNGEN 99
20. 11 CHANGING IDENTITIES THROUGH MEMORY: MALAPARTE’S SELF-FIGURATIONS IN KAPUTT 110
21. PART IV THE VICTIM’S MEMORY
22. 12 REVIEWING MEMORY: WIESEL, TESTIMONY AND SELF-READING 121
23. 13 PRIMO LEVI. THE DUTY OF MEMORY 131
24. 14 LA DOULEUR: DURAS, AMNESIA AND DESIRE 141
25. 15 MYTH, MEMORY, TESTIMONY, JEWISHNESS IN GRETE WEIL’S MEINE SCHWESTER ANTIGONE 149
26. PART V THE MEDIA OF MEMORY: MAY 1968 AND CINEMA
27. 16 L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES AND LE CHAGRIN ET LA PITIÉ: RECONFIGURATIONS OF LAW, LEGALITIES AND THE STATE IN POST-1968 FRANCE 159
28. 17 ALEXANDER KLUGE: GERMANY – AN EXPERIENCE OF WORDS AND IMAGES 175
29. 18 FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM REVIEWED: GENERATIONS, HISTORY AND FILM IN ITALY AFTER 1968 185
30. PART VI WOMEN’S WRITING AND THE QUEST FOR THE FATHER
31. 19 REMEMBERING THE COLLABORATING FATHER IN MARIE CHAIX’S LES LAURIERS DU LAC DE CONSTANCE AND EVELYNE LE GARREC’S LA RIVE ALLEMANDE DE MA MÉMOIRE 201
32. 20 SEEING THE FATHER: MEMORY AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN ELISABETH PLESSEN’S MITTEILUNG AN DEN ADEL 211
33. 21 INTIMATIONS OF PATRIARCHY: MEMORIES OF WARTIME JAPAN IN DACIA MARAINI’S BAGHERIA 220
34. PART VII A CHILD’S MEMORY
35. 22 A CHILD IN TIME: PATRICK MODIANO AND THE MEMORY OF THE OCCUPATION 229
36. 23 CHILDHOOD MEMORY AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: CHRISTA WOLF’S KINDHEITSMUSTER 238
37. 24 STRATEGIES FOR REMEMBERING: AUSCHWITZ, MOTHER AND WRITING IN EDITH BRUCK 247
38. PART VIII AFTER THE COLD WAR: EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
39. 25 TRAUMA AND ABSENCE 257
40. 26 NONRATIONAL DISCOURSE IN A WORK OF REASON: PETER WEISS’S ANTI-FASCIST NOVEL DIE ÄSTHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS 272
41. 27 FIFTY YEARS ON: GERMAN CHILDREN OF THE WAR REMEMBER 281
42. 28 MEMORIES OF RESISTANCE, RESISTANCES OF MEMORY 288
43. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 297
44. BIBLIOGRAPHY 302
45. INDEX 326