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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Tác giả chính: Zehfuss, Maja
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Cambridge University Press 2013
Những chủ đề:
War
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35851
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Tóm tắt: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