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Representing the "Good German" in Literature and Culture after 1945 - Altruism and Moral Ambiguity (Hardcover)
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Representing the "Good German" in Literature and Culture after 1945 - Altruism and Moral Ambiguity (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical
representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and
the Nazi period. In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the
allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought
Germans whose record during the war and the Nazi period could serve
as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans asevil. That search has
never really stopped. In the past few years, we have witnessed a
burgeoning of cultural representations of this "other" kind of
Third Reich citizen - the "good German" - as opposed to the
committed Nazi or genocidal maniac. Such representations have
highlighted individuals' choices in favor of dissenting behavior,
moral truth, or at the very least civil disobedience. The "good
German's" counterhegemonic practice cannot negate or contradict the
barbaric reality of Hitler's Germany, but reflects a value system
based on humanity and an "other" ideal community. This volume of
new essays explores postwar and recent representations of "good
Germans" during the Third Reich, analyzing the logic of moral
behavior, cultural and moral relativism, and social conformity
found in them. It thus draws together discussions of the function
and reception of "Good Germans" in Germany and abroad.
Contributors: Eoin Bourke, Manuel Braganca, Maeve Cooke, Kevin De
Ornellas, Sabine Egger, Joachim Fischer, Coman Hamilton, Jon
Hughes, Karina von Lindeiner-Strasky, Alexandra Ludewig, Pol O
Dochartaigh, Christiane Schoenfeld, Matthias Uecker. Pol O
Dochartaigh is Professor of German and Dean of the Faculty of Arts
at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Christiane
Schoenfeld is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department
of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick.
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