Maja Zehfuss

Wounds of Memory

The Politics of War in Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies memories of the Second World War articulated in novels to raise important political questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780521174466
• ISBN-10: 0521174465
• Artikelnr.: 30517677

Autorenporträt

Maja Zehfuss is Reader in International Politics at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality (Cambridge, 2002) and has written articles for a number of journals including the European Journal of International Relations, Millennium, the Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, International Relations and International Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Speaking of war and memory
2. Forgetting to remember?
3. Wounds of memory
4. The truth of memory
5. Times of memory
6. Memory, uncertainty, responsibility.

Rezensionen

'This is a strong addition to the growing literature on historical remembrance in contemporary Germany. Zehfuss focuses on war novels, and in particular on those which show the suffering of ordinary soldiers, civilians, refugees, and children. This fictional repertoire is selective. 'A cruel but normal war' is what fiction records as a form of historical remembrance. The author aims at a Derridean 'overturning', reversing the previous eclipse of the Holocaust by the Resistance, and facing squarely what the Second World War looks like when it is not eclipsed by the Holocaust. She then returns to the Holocaust, to see what this new deconstructed geometry looks like. The result is a powerful account of the fluidity of historical narratives, carried by the readers and writers of fiction in Germany, and of their implications for discussions of a range of social and political issues today.' Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University