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  1. Second-generation Holocaust literature
    legacies of survival and perpetration
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk ; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

    Among historical events of the 20th century, the Holocaust is unrivaled as the subject of both scholarly and literary writing. Literary responses include not only thousands of autobiographical and fictional texts written by survivors, but also, more... more

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    Among historical events of the 20th century, the Holocaust is unrivaled as the subject of both scholarly and literary writing. Literary responses include not only thousands of autobiographical and fictional texts written by survivors, but also, more recently, works by writers who are not survivors but nevertheless feel compelled to write about the Holocaust. Writers from what is known as the 'second generation' have produced texts that express their feeling of being powerfully marked by events of which they have had no direct experience. This book expands the commonly-used definition of 'second-generation literature,' which refers to texts written from the perspective of the children of survivors, to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators. With its innovative focus on the literary legacy of both groups, it investigates how second-generation writers employ similar tropes of stigmatization to express their troubled relationships to their parents' histories. Through readings of nine American, German, and French literary texts, Erin McGlothlin demonstrates how an anxiety with signification is manifested in the very structure of second-generation literature, revealing the extent to which the literary texts themselves are marked by the continuing aftershocks of the Holocaust. Erin McGlothlin is assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781571136855
    RVK Categories: GN 1701
    DDC Categories: 800
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Judenvernichtung <Motiv>; Generation 2
    Other subjects: Schindel, Robert (1944-): Gebürtig; Schneider, Peter (1940-): Vati; Schlink, Bernhard (1944-): Der Vorleser; Timm, Uwe (1940-): Am Beispiel meines Bruders
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  2. Versuch über die Ökonomie der Schuld
    das radikale Böse in der Darstellung von Holocausttätern ; das Beispiel von Peter Schneiders Vati

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    Language: German
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Enthalten in: Pandaemonium Germanicum; São Paulo : Departamento de Letras Modernas, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1997-; 21.2018, Nr. 34, S. 115-133; Online-Ressource
    Subjects: Schneider, Peter; Vati; Nationalsozialismus <Motiv>; Mengele, Josef
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  3. Versuch über die Ökonomie der Schuld
    das radikale Böse in der Darstellung von Holocausttätern : das Beispiel von Peter Schneiders Vati
    Publisher:  Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main

    Dieser Artikel diskutiert die Frage von Schuld und Sühne im Fall von Massenmördern wie Josef Mengele. Die Abnormität des Verbrechens, so scheint es, erfordert Rache und nicht eine einfache Bestrafung im Einklang mit den Normen der Menschenrechte.... more

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    Dieser Artikel diskutiert die Frage von Schuld und Sühne im Fall von Massenmördern wie Josef Mengele. Die Abnormität des Verbrechens, so scheint es, erfordert Rache und nicht eine einfache Bestrafung im Einklang mit den Normen der Menschenrechte. Analog zu diesen Vorüberlegungen kann fiktionale Literatur über das Thema, die das Bedürfnis der Leser nach Rache nicht erfüllt, nicht als gelungen angesehen werden. Diese These scheint bestätigt zu werden durch das Schicksal von Vati (1987), einer Erzählung von Peter Schneider, die das Treffen Josef Mengeles mit seinem Sohn in einem brasilianischen Versteck beschreibt. Hinsichtlich der Fakten, gestützt auf eine Serie von Artikeln über das tatsächliche Treffen, zeigt Schneider das psychologische Dilemma des Sohns, der sich unfähig fühlt, den Vater der Justiz auszuliefern oder ihn eigenhändig zu bestrafen; die fehlende Bestrafung des Täters scheint er durch eine Reihe von aggressiven Akten und Phantasien gegen andere Figuren zu kompensieren. Schneider hat versucht den negativen Effekt auf sein Publikum zu reduzieren, indem er statt des Erzählers in der ersten Person einen Er-Erzähler einführte. Dennoch zeigt die Rezeption des Buchs, dass es dem Autor nicht gelungen ist, das Gleichgewicht zwischen Schuld und Strafe zu finden, das die Öffentlichkeit hätte erwarten dürfen. This article discusses the question of guilt and penalty in the case of mass murderers as Josef Mengele. The abnormity of the crime, it seems, requires vengeance and not just a punishment restricted to the norms of human rights. In analogy to this assumption, fictional literature on this topic that does not satisfy the reader's desire for revenge, cannot be considered felicitous. The thesis is apparently confirmed by the fate of Vati (1987), a narrative by Peter Schneider which describes the encounter between Mengele and his son in his hideout in Brazil. Concerning the facts based on a series of articles upon the real event, Schneider shows the psychological dilemma of the son who feels unable to deliver his guilty father to the authorities or punish him by his own hands; his failure to punish the perpetrator seems to be compensated by aggressive acts and fantasies against other persons. Schneider has tried to reduce the effect on his audiences, changing the narrator from the first to the third person. Nevertheless, the reception of his book shows that the author did not achieve the proportion between guilt and punishment that would have been expected by the public.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Format: Online
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Pandaemonium Germanicum; São Paulo : Departamento de Letras Modernas, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1997-; Band 21, Heft 34 (2018), Seite 115-133; Online-Ressource

    DDC Categories: 830
    Subjects: Judenvernichtung <Motiv>; Das Böse; Schuld <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Schneider, Peter (1940-): Vati; Mengele, Josef (1911-1979)