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Writing the Child

Fictions of Memory in German Postwar Literature

Susanne Baackmann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2022 | New edition
Peter Lang Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78707-722-5 (ISBN)

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The child is never just a child. While the image, voice and gaze of the victimized child is a universal symbol of a failing world, it can be an equally potent aesthetic screen for historical obfuscation. Analysing selected works by Dieter Forte, Günter Grass, Gisela Elsner, Hans-Ulrich Treichel and Rachel Seiffert, Writing the Child considers the evolution of German cultural memory concerning wartime trauma and victimhood. In these works, the aesthetically conceived child comes into view as a memory icon, animated as much by collective fantasies as shaped by specific historical moments. Whose suffering has gained importance after the end of World War II? Who claims innocence or responsibility at the time and over time as the Nazi legacy reverberates into the future? Who remains implicated in the legacy of perpetration? In dialogue with the voices of German war children, the Kriegskinder, the texts echo but also contest exculpatory victimologies that have shaped German memory frameworks from the 1940s up to the post-1989 present.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Memories ; 18
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Katia Pizzi
Verlagsort	Witney
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	German Postwar Literature • implication • National Socialism • Susanne Baackmann • Writing the Child
ISBN-10	1-78707-722-5 / 1787077225
ISBN-13	978-1-78707-722-5 / 9781787077225
Zustand	Neuware