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German-Jewish literature in the wake of the Holocaust : Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the politics of address

Author: Pascale R Bos
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Series: Studies in European culture and history.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Kluger, emerge as major contributors to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. By  Read more...
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Named Person: Grete Weil; Ruth Klüger; Grete Weil; Ruth Klüger; Grete Weil; Ruth Klüger, Philologin.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pascale R Bos
ISBN: 1403966575 9781403966575
OCLC Number: 56733097
Description: xiv, 143 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
German-Jewish Literature as Address and "Return" --
Public Address/Personal Closure --
Reading Against the Disputed German-Jewish Symbiosis --
Analyzing Female Experience --
Theoretical Intersections --
Theorizing Holocaust Representation --
Literary Interventions --
2. The Jewish Return to Germany --
Danach bin ich wieder Mensch: Weil's Return for Exile --
Informationsverweigerung --
Competing Memories --
The (Futile) Search for Engagement --
"Symptoms of German Amnesia" --
3. Mythical Interventions --
"Hitler's Children": The Legacy of Silence in 1970s Germany --
Antigone: Mythical Resistance Fighter or Terrorist? --
Tactics of Evasion --
Bridging the Generations --
Changed Cultural Tides --
Imagining Michal --
Reconciling Jewish Identity: Bin ich Judischer geworden? --
Finale --
4. Creating Address --
Ruth Kluger "Returns" to Germany --
Unconventional Memories --
A (German) Success Story? --
Discursive Interventions --
Reluctant Dialogue --
Impossible Vienna --
Reifying Discourse --
5. Belated Interventions --
Impossible Legacy, Impossible Dialogue --
Assessing Change --
Minor Literature --
Survivors Speak.
Series Title: Studies in European culture and history.
Responsibility: Pascale R. Bos.
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Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Kluger, emerge as major contributors to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. By tracing the decades-long waxing and waning of the German public's interest in German-Jewish literature, and the particular cultural-political impact that Weil's and Kluger's works had on their German audience, it investigates the paradox of Germany's confrontation of the Holocaust without necessarily confronting the Jews as Germans.

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