Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse The Politics of Memory

, by Fuchs, Anne

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Foreword to the Paperback Edition	p. xii
Introduction: Family Narratives Between Vernacular and Official Memory	p. 1
The meaning of being German	p. 1
History as family narrative	p. 4
Generation and genealogy	p. 9
Germans as victims of war	p. 11
A reader's guide to this book	p. 16
Generational Conflict and Masculinity in Väterliteratur	p. 20
Väterliteratur and the language of silence	p. 20
Between rupture and continuity: Generational discourse	p. 21
Of damaged fathers and ruined families: Christoph Meckel and Uwe Timm	p. 24
Between sentimental empathy and historical analysis: Fathers as soldiers in Ulla Hahn and Dagmar Leupold	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 43
Family Narratives and Postmemory: Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang, Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper and Marcel Beyer's Spione	p. 45
The new German family narrative	p. 45
Postmemory and trauma theory	p. 47
Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang and Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper: From historical self-reflexivity to postmemorial confidence	p. 52
Undoing disenchantment: Necromancy in Marcel Beyer's Spione	p. 62
Conclusion	p. 74
Heimat and Territory in Thomas Medicus's In den Augen meines Großvaters and Stephan Wackwitz's Ein unsichtbares Land	p. 77
The geography of memory	p. 77
Landscape as screen memory: Medicus's In den Augen meines Großvaters	p. 80
Heimat discourse and colonialism in Stephan Wackwitz's Ein unsichtbares Land	p. 91
Conclusion	p. 106
Narrating Resistance to the Third Reich: Museum Discourse, Autobiography, Fiction and Film	p. 109
The symbolism of resistance	p. 109
Resistance narratives and the construction of a moral legacy in East and West Germany	p. 110
The memorial site for German resistance: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand	p. 116
The impairment of tradition in Wibke Bruhns's Meines Vaters Land and Christian Friedrich Delius's Mein Jahr als Mörder	p. 122
Resistance in France in German narratives; Sibylle Mulot's Nachbarn and Michael Wallner's April in Paris	p. 136
Resistance as family romance: Jo Baier's Stauffenberg. Der 20. Juli 1944	p. 143
Resistance in extremis: Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl. Die letzten Tage	p. 147
Historical narrative or postmemorial drama? Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstraße	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 157
Hitler Youth Autobiographies: Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel and Joachim Fest's Ich nicht	p. 161
Autobiography and identity discourses	p. 161
The Hitler Youth generation in post-war Germany	p. 163
Grass's confession and the public debate	p. 168
Constructing autobiographical truthfulness: Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel	p. 172
Fest, Grass and the politics of memory in unified Germany	p. 182
Reclaiming Prussianism, Catholicism and the bourgeois education: Joachim Fest's Ich Nicht	p. 186
From autobiography to hagiography	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 197
Epilogue: Germany as a Threshold Culture	p. 200
Notes	p. 205
Works Cited	p. 232
Index	p. 248
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