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Musical Biographies - The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Musical Biographies - The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies
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Since the second half of the twentieth century various routes,
including history and literature, are offered in dealing with the
catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust. Historiographies and
novels are of course written with words; how can they bear witness
to and reverberate with traumatic experience that escapes or
resists language? In search for an alternative mode of expression
and representation, this volume focuses on postwar German and
Austrian writers who made use of music in their exploration of the
National Socialist past. Their works invoke, however, new
questions: What happens when we cross the line between narration
and documentation, and between memory and a musical piece? How does
identification and fascination affect our reading of the text? What
kind of ethical issues do these testimonies raise? As this volume
shows, reading these musical biographies is both troubling and
compelling since they 'fail' to come to terms with the past. In
playing the haunting music that does not let us put the matter to
rest, they call into question not only the exclusion of personal
stories by official narratives, but also challenge writers' and
readers' most intimate perspectives on an unmasterable past.
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