European Memories of the Second World War,9781571819369

European Memories of the Second World War

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ISBN13: 9781571819369
ISBN10: 1571819363
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): Berghahn Books
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Summary

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with a focus on the extent' to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.

Table of Contents

Preface ix(4)
Introduction Studying European Literary Memories xiii
Helmut Peitsch
I. The German Soldier's Memory 2(10)
1. Private and Public Filters: Memories of War in Heinrich Boll's Fiction and Nonfiction
2(10)
J.H. Reid
II. The Resistance Memory 12(76)
The Female Resister 12(34)
2. Ordinary Heroines: Resistance and Romance in the War Fiction of Elsa Triolet
12(11)
Diana Holmes
3. `This Book Does Not Want to Be a Work of Art. This Book Is Truth.' The Diaries of Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
23(12)
Irmela von der Luhe
4. A Woman's Perspective: Autobiography and History in Giovanna Zangrandi's Resistance Narratives
35(11)
Penny Morris
The Male Resister 46(42)
5. Vercors -- Writing the Unspeakable: From Le Silence de la mer (1942) to La Puissance du jour (1951)
46(9)
William Kidd
6. `A History Full of Holes'? France and the French Resistance in the Work of Stephan Hermlin
55(12)
Dennis Tate
7. War, Civil War and the Problem of Violence in Calvino and Pavese
67(11)
Sarah Morgan
8. Imagining Losers in Bufalino's Diceria dell'untore
78(10)
Peter Hainsworth
III. The Fascist's Memory 88(34)
9. Memory and Chronicle: Louis-Ferdinand Celine and the D'un chateau l'autre Trilogy
88(11)
Nicholas Hewitt
10. Portrait of the Poet as a Dead Man. Ernst Junger's Writing in the Second World War: Strahlungen
99(11)
Justus Fetscher
11. Changing Identities Through Memory: Malaparte's Self-figurations in Kaputt
110(12)
Charles Burdett
IV. The Victim's Memory 122(38)
12. Reviewing Memory: Wiesel, Testimony and Self-reading
122(9)
Colin Davis
13. Primo Levi. The Duty of Memory
131(10)
Robert Gordon
14. La Douleur: Duras, Amnesia and Desire
141(8)
Emma Wilson
15. Myth, Memory, Testimony, Jewishness in Grete Weil's Meine Schwester Antigone
149(11)
Moray McGowan
V. The Media of Memory: May 1968 and Cinema 160(42)
16. L'Armee des ombres and Le Chagrin et la pitie: Reconfigurations of Law, Legalities and the State in Post-1968 France
160(15)
Margaret Atack
17. Alexander Kluge: Germany -- An Experience of Words and Images
175(10)
Klaus R. Scherpe
18. Fascism and Anti-fascism Reviewed: Generations, History and Film in Italy after 1968
185(17)
David Forgacs
VI. Women's Writing and the Quest for the Father 202(28)
19. Remembering the Collaborating Father in Marie Chaix's Les Lauriers du lac de Constance and Evelyne Le Garrec's La Rive allemande de ma memoire
202(9)
Claire Gorrara
20. Seeing the Father: Memory and Identity Construction in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel
211(9)
Anne Moss
21. Intimations of Patriarchy: Memories of Wartime Japan in Dacia Maraini's Bagheria
220(10)
Judith Bryce
VII. A Child's Memory 230(28)
22. A Child in Time: Patrick Modiano and the Memory of the Occupation
230(8)
Alan Morris
23. Childhood Memory and Moral Responsibility: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster
238(9)
Chris Weedon
24. Strategies for Remembering: Auschwitz, Mother and Writing in Edith Bruck
247(11)
Adalgisa Giorgio
VIII. After the Cold War: European Literature and the Politics of Memory 258(39)
25. Trauma and Absence
258(14)
Omer Bartov
26. Nonrational Discourse in a Work of Reason: Peter Weiss's Anti-fascist Novel Die Asthetik des Widerstands
272(9)
Robert Cohen
27. Fifty Years On: German Children of the War Remember
281(7)
Jost Hermand
28. Memories of Resistance, Resistances of Memory
288(9)
Luisa Passerini
Notes on Contributors 297(5)
Bibliography 302(24)
Index 326

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