The version that wanted to be written Writing the Nazi past as historiographic metafiction / Volume 13 Volume 13

The unification of Germany in 1990 set in train a number of dramatic changes in Germany's political, social and cultural landscape which gave rise to a series of hotly debated memory contests centred on the newly unified nation's approach to its common Nazi past. As an important medium of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Giblett, Kylie author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [s.l.] : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co 2021.
Series:Transpositionen/Transpositions
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720208806719
Table of Contents:
  • No German identity without Auschwitz: Germans as perpetrators, Germans as victims, and the disrupting impact of historiographic metafiction
  • If they were all monsters: the SS perpetrator Hanna Schmitz in Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser
  • Where did all the murderers go? Germans as victims (?) in Ulla Hahn's Unscharfe Bilder
  • Transformation work: viewing the Nazi past through the third generation prism in Tanja Dücker's Himmelskörper
  • Every witness is a false witness: looking through the eyes of a perpetrator in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde
  • The version that wanted to be written: historiographic metafiction and the perpetrator/victim dichotomy