Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany
This book explores some key debates on war memories and offers detailed readings of seven novels which depict the German experience of the SecondWorldWar. Although the argument revolves around the politics of war in Germany, most of the book does not concern itself directly with the debates on w...
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Accés en línia: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35851 |
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Sumari: | This book explores some key debates on war memories and offers
detailed readings of seven novels which depict the German experience of
the SecondWorldWar. Although the argument revolves around the politics
of war in Germany, most of the book does not concern itself directly
with the debates on whether and in what way the FRG should deploy its
military.9 Indeed, it deliberately moves away from the seemingly coherent
arguments about the significance of the past for the present and towards
the bewildering complexity that emerges from examining articulations
of memory. Doing so raises questions not merely about the Germans’
memories of the Second World War and their political implications but
also about our understandings of truth, ethics, subjectivity, emotion and
time. This first chapter sets out the context |
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