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Author: Erin Heather McGlothlin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1571139613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust.
Author: Adrian Del Caro
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of essays that grew out of a conference at the University of Colorado, where international scholars met to assess the post-war transformation of German Studies from 1945-1995. In the first section, scholars address the intersecting problems of nationalism and anti-Semitism in modern and contemporary Germany. The second section raises issues concerning the German 'Other', providing innovative views on the hybrid state of German cultural production. The third section offers unique insight into the apparently 'forbidden' areas of artistic creation after Adorno's initial anti-graven image dictum in the face of Shoah atrocities. In the final section, the authors explore German literature and literary studies as international vehicles for reflection on the holocaust and for the ongoing renewal of national identities.
Author: Emily Jeremiah
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1571135367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores nationality, gender, and postmodern subjectivity in the work of five German-speaking women writers who embody a "nomadic ethics." How can postmodern subjectivity be ethically conceived? What can literature contribute to this project? What role do "gender" and "nation" play in the construction of contemporary identities? Nomadic Ethics broaches these questions, exploring the work of five women writers who live outside of the German-speaking countries or thematize a move away from them: Birgit Vanderbeke, Dorothea Grünzweig, Antje Rávic Strubel, Anna Mitgutsch, and Barbara Honigmann. It draws on work by Rosi Braidotti, Sara Ahmed, and Judith Butler to develop a nomadic ethics, and examines how the writers under discussion conceptualize contemporary German and Austrian identities -- especially but not only gender identities -- in instructive ways. The book engages with a number of critical issues in contemporary German studies: globalization; green thought; questions of gender and sexuality; East (and West) German identities; Austrianness; the postmemory of the Holocaust; and Jewishness. In this way, Nomadic Ethics offers a valuable contribution to debates about the nature of German studies itself, as well as insightful readings of the individual authors and texts concerned. Emily Jeremiah is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Author: Daniel H. Magilow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1350091839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the immediate aftermath of the genocide to the present day, Holocaust Representations in History explores this in detail. Daniel H. Magilow and Lisa Silverman examine film, drama, literature, photography, visual art, television, graphic novels, memorials, and video games as they discuss the major themes and issues that underpin the chronicling of the Holocaust. Each chapter is focused on a critical debate or question in Holocaust history; the case studies range from well-known, commercially successful works about the Holocaust to controversial examples which have drawn accusations of profaning the memory of the genocide. This 2nd edition adds to the mosaic of representation, with new chapters analysing poetry in the wake of the Holocaust and video games from the here and now. This unique volume provides an unmatched survey of key and controversial Holocaust representations and is of vital importance to anyone wanting to understand the subject and its complexities.
Author: Hilene S. Flanzbaum
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-06-29
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1793612064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, film, or material culture—are shaped by national context, providing a valuable pedagogical source in terms of both content and methodology. As memory yields to post-memory, nation of origin plays a larger role in each re-telling, and the chapters in this book explore this notion covering well-known texts like Night (Hungary), Survival in Auschwitz (Italy), MAUS (United States), This Way to the Gas (Poland), and The Reader (Germany), while also introducing lesser-known representations from countries like Argentina or Australia.
Author: J. Diefendorf
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1137390174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToo often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.
Author: Jan Sjåvik
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006-04-19
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0810865017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. While obviously including the area's most famous works, the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater also provides information on lesser known authors and currents trends, literary circles and journals, and historical background. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, which together make this reference the most comprehensive and up to date work of its kind related to Scandinavian literature and theater available anywhere.
Author: Jessica Ortner
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1640140220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.
Author: Andrés José Nader
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781571133755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Traumatic Verses provides psychoanalytically informed close readings of a range of poems and discusses their significance for aesthetic theory and for research on the camps. It also tells the stories behind the composition and preservation of these poems and the history of their publication since 1945. Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English translation along with the original texts.This book fills a gap left by literary historians, who have mostly ignored writings from the camps and avoided careful scrutiny of literature produced under the Nazi regime. Studies of trauma have concentrated on post-traumatic experiences; discussions of aesthetics after the Holocaust have neglected the issue of the artistic impulse in the camps. On both counts this book constitutes a unique contribution to scholarship, showing that, when read attentively, the poems written in the camps are invaluable sites for confronting the Nazi past." --book jacket.
