Author: Elizabeth Snyder Hook Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 157113185X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 193
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Central to the discussions of each novel are questions of guilt, cultural identity, and atonement, and of the relocation of these ultimately unresolvable issues from the larger national and political arena to the realm of intimate relationships between parents and children."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Svenja O'Donnell Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1984880225 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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"An extraordinary saga." —David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for sixty years Growing up in Paris as the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. All she knew was that her great-grandparents, grandmother, and mother had fled their home city of Königsberg near the end of World War II, never to return. But everything changed when O'Donnell traveled to the city—now known as Kaliningrad, and a part of Russia—and called her grandmother, who uncharacteristically burst into tears. "I have so much to tell you," Inge said. In this transporting and illuminating book, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow. Ultimately, O'Donnell uncovers the act of violence that separated Inge from the man she loved; a terrible secret hidden for more than six decades. A captivating World War II saga, Inge's War is also a powerful reckoning with the meaning of German identity and inherited trauma. In retracing her grandmother's footsteps, O'Donnell not only discovers the remarkable story of a woman caught in the gears of history, but also comes face-to-face with her family's legacy of neutrality and inaction—and offers a rare glimpse into a reality too long buried by silence and shame.
Author: Erin Heather McGlothlin Publisher: Camden House ISBN: 9781571133526 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.
Author: Erin Heather McGlothlin Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1571139613 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust.
Author: A. Fuchs Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230589723 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 266
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Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical evaluation of generational discourse.
Author: Evgenia Iliopoulou Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 383944537X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 257
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Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting out from the essentials of grammar and rhetoric, and aims to improve the general understanding of second-person narrative within literature. In its various forms and typologies, the second person amplifies and expands the limits of representation, thus remaining a narrative enigma: a small narrative gesture - with major narrative impact.
Author: Dirk Göttsche Publisher: Camden House ISBN: 1571135464 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 496
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"This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature's intense engagement with German colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies"--Publisher website, July 5, 2013.
Author: Derek Malcolm Publisher: Random House ISBN: 009942973X Category : Film critics Languages : en Pages : 258
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Malcom’s parents’ tragic story is riveting -- his father killed his mother’s lover and, unique in British legal history, was acquitted. But he later discovers his “real” father was the Italian ambassador.
Author: Elizabeth Snyder Hook
Author: Svenja O'Donnell
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Author: Erin Heather McGlothlin
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Author: Dirk Göttsche
Author: Derek Malcolm