Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping
of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of
German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the
aesthetics of VergangenheitsbewAltigung (coming to terms with the
past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German
literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context
of these current debates. The contributors address questions
arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a
generation change-questions of personal and national identity in
Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the
central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth
generation is that of biography, as examined through GA1/4nter
Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of
National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict
between the post-war generations and the contributions of that
conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical
distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.
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