Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive
in German-language literature and culture since 1945. In recent
years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in
particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of
the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material
found there, or the system that orders this material; in its
broadest sense, it might refer to something public (records housed
in a municipal building), or something private (photographs in a
family album). The material and documentary qualities of the
archive confer on it an authenticating function attributed only
cautiously to memory, but theories of the archive have questioned
the status of material, documentary vestiges of the past. Memory
and the archive are inextricablylinked, but how does this affect
the mediation of the past? This volume explores the changing
relationship between memory and the archive in German-language
literature and culture since 1945. Contributions approach this
topic froma range of perspectives (film, visual culture, urban
culture, digital technology, as well as literature) and offer
illuminating studies of Harun Farocki, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas
Demand, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jurgen Fuchs, StefanWolter, and
Sasa Stanisic. Contributors: Priyanka Basu, Carol Anne
Costabile-Heming, Regine Criser, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Diana
Hitzke and Charlton Payne, Caitriona Leahy, Dora Osborne, Annie
Ring, Lizzie Stewart, Simon Ward. Dora Osborne is Lecturer in
German at Durham University.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
(4)
