Writing in the New Germany: Cultural Memory and Family Narratives.
Part of a special section on the importance of memory in German society and culture. The writer examines the use of family narrative and cultural memory in German literature. He comments on contemporary Germany's dominant memory discourses, noting the prominence of both German-specific cultural me...
| Publicado en: | German Politics & Society Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 16 - 42 |
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Berghahn Books
Fall 2005
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the importance of memory in German society and culture. The writer examines the use of family narrative and cultural memory in German literature. He comments on contemporary Germany's dominant memory discourses, noting the prominence of both German-specific cultural memory and cultural memory that transcends national borders. He contrasts sociological and literary approaches to memory and provides a brief overview of several influential family novels published in the 20th and early 21st century. He then considers Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Kathrin Schmidt's Gunnar-Lennefsen Expedition, depicting the novels respectively as West and East German perspectives on German history. |
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