{"product_id":"victims-and-perpetrators-1933-1945-re-presenting-the-past-in-post-unification-culture-9783110189827","title":"Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines the politics of history and memory in Germany today through a review and analysis of seminal developments in the current discourse on 1933 – 1945. An interdisplicinary work, this book examines questions of representing the past from the perspective of literary studies, social psychology, film studies, history, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003eThemes include transgenerational memory and remembrance, the air war and German literature, commemoration and silences, transnational reconciliation, and historical consciousness in the German present. The collected essays make clear that as the current discourse contributes toward an historically informed, differentiated understanding of individuals’ roles in the Third Reich and World War Two, victim and perpetrator identities cannot be defined as exclusive from one another. The discourse emphasizes personal over collective experience and answers questions of responsibility and guilt on the individual level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Das hier anzuzeigende Buch ist ein guter und wichtiger Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Bestandsaufnahme der auf die Jahre 1933 bis 1945 bezogenen Erinnerungsformen im Nachwende-Deutschland.\"Norman P. Franke in: Arbitrium 2\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaurel Cohen-Pfister\/Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner\u003c\/em\u003e, Introduction: History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945 \u003cstrong\u003eTransgenerational Memory \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAleida Assmann\u003c\/em\u003e, Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature; \u003cem\u003eNikhil Sathe\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Ein Fressen für mein MG\": The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's Am BeispieI rneines Bruders; \u003cem\u003eRachel Halverson\u003c\/em\u003e, Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe \u003cstrong\u003eAir War and German Literature \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolker Hage\u003c\/em\u003e, To Write or Remain Silent? The Portrayal of the Air War in German Literature; \u003cem\u003eSusanne Vees-Gulani\u003c\/em\u003e, The Language of Trauma: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air War; \u003cem\u003eThomas Fox\u003c\/em\u003e, Writing Dresden Across the Generations \u003cstrong\u003eJewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElke Segelcke\u003c\/em\u003e, Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmann's Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History; \u003cem\u003eJames Martin\u003c\/em\u003e, A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim- Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara; \u003cem\u003eMargit Sinka\u003c\/em\u003e, The \"Different\" Holocaust Memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches VierteI: Personal and Collective Remembrance Thematizing Perpetrator\/Victim Relationships \u003cstrong\u003eTransnational Reconciliation \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eValentina Glajar\u003c\/em\u003e, Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig; \u003cem\u003ePawel Lutomski\u003c\/em\u003e, Acknowledging Each Other As Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of Polish-German Reconciliation; \u003cem\u003eDagmar Wienroeder-Skinner\u003c\/em\u003e, Attempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk \u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Consciousness and the German Present\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHarald Welzer\u003c\/em\u003e, The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathers' Past; \u003cem\u003eBrad Prager\u003c\/em\u003e, The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers; \u003cem\u003eLaurel Cohen-Pfister\u003c\/em\u003e, Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification; \u003cem\u003eDaniel Becker\u003c\/em\u003e, Corning to Terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516386599255,"sku":"9783110189827","price":129.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/victims-and-perpetrators-1933-1945-re-presenting-the-past-in-post-unification-culture-9783110189827","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}