Reinhard Zachau

Appropriated Memory (eBook, ePUB)

The Creation of a German Post-Memorial Literature

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781803747057
• Artikelnr.: 75746495

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 originate¿d¿¿ ¿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