Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in...
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Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical ev
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword to the Paperback Edition; 1 Introduction: Family Narratives Between Vernacular and Official Memory; 2 Generational Conflict and Masculinity in Väterliteratur by Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Dagmar Leupold and Ulla Hahn; 3 Family Narratives and Postmemory: Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang, Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper and Marcel Beyer's Spione; 4 Heimat and Territory in Thomas Medicus's In den Augen meines Großvaters and Stephan Wackwitz's Ein unsichtbares Land; 5 Narrating Resistance to the Third Reich: Museum Discourse, Autobiography, Fiction and Film
6 Hitler Youth Autobiographies: Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel and Joachim Fest's Ich nicht7 Epilogue: Germany as a Threshold Culture; Notes; Works Cited; Index
