Reinhard Zachau

Appropriated Memory

The Creation of a German Post-Memorial Literature
Herausgegeben:Pizzi, Katia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Th is b ook offers a survey of post-World War II German-language post-memorial writing. An analysis of the books by Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, and Wolfgang Koeppen e xposes the difficult path of German writing about the Holocaust. Koeppen's unauthorized appropriation of Jakob Littner's survivor memoir serves as the frame for th is study, expos ing the difference s between perpetrator and victim perspectives. The various attempts by the current generation of authors to bridge th is divide reflect the renewed interest and changed attitude s towards the Holocaust that emerged in Germany after R eunification. Included in this volume are W. G. Sebald's imaginary dialogue between a victim and a perpetrator, Ursula Krechel's exploration of Jewish life in Shanghai from a Jewish perspective, Iris Hanika's presentation of the distraught mindset of a member of Germany's second perpetrator generation, and Kevin Vennemann's narrative about a Jewish child in the midst of a Polish massacre.

Produktdetails

• Cultural Memories 23
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781803747033
• ISBN-10: 180374703X
• Artikelnr.: 75444801

Autorenporträt

Reinhard Zachau is Professor Emeritus at the University of the South. He has published a number of books, on Stefan Heym, Hans Fallada, Heinrich Böll, Berlin's Modernism, and on German film. Appropriated Memory originated in the extensive media coverage that the author's discovery of Jakob Littner's Holocaust survivor memoir in 2000 received.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction Germans Writing about the Holocaust
Chapter 1 Perpetrator Writing before 1990
Chapter 2 Appropriating a Victim Identity
Chapter 3 Jewish Memories
Chapter 4 Perpetrator Memoirs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index