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First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
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