Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature

by Caroline Schaumann

Overview

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually.

About the series editor:

Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110202434
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	05/30/2008
Series:	Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Series , #4
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Caroline Schaumann, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Editorial Reviews

"Memory Matters constitutes a major contribution to a shift in critical discourses regarding (post)memories of Nazi Germany - one that carefully examines 'Memory contests' (Fuchs) in contemporary German literature while questioning familiar oppositions and assumptions established by previous generations of scholars and writers."
Friederike Eigler in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 2/2010

"[...] the book is a valuable contribution to debates about the Holocaust, and Schaumann ensures through her very persuasively crafted discussion of new complexities and ambiguities that these debates are not mainstreamed and thus trivialized."
Kamakshi P. Murti in: German Studies Review 1/2010

"Highly recommended."
M. Shafi in: Choice 2/2009

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