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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathryn N Jones |
ISBN: | 9781904350668 1904350666 |
OCLC Number: | 165482855 |
Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cardiff University, 2003) presented under the title: Journeys into the world with the baggage of the past: representations of travel and memory in 1960s and 1970s French and German language literature. |
Description: | 160 pages ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Remembering the war years in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic from the late 1950s to 1980 -- "A new mode of travel" : representations of deportation in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après and Jorge Semprun's Le grand voyage -- Visiting the camps in 1960s and 1970s travelogues by Horst Krüger, Günter Kunert, Rolf Schneider, and Peter Weiss -- Fictional representation of the Holocaust in H.G. Adler's Eine Reise and Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance -- Conversations with the father in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel, Bernward Vesper's Die Reise, and Patrick Modiano's Les Boulevards de ceinture -- German origins and exile : Évelyne Le Garrec's La rive allemande de ma mémoire and Maren Sell's Mourir d'absence. |
Responsibility: | Kathryn N. Jones. |
Abstract:
The Second World War was a common experience of cultural and historical rupture for many European countries, but studies of this period and its after-images often remain locked in national frameworks. Jones' comparative study of national memory cultures argues for a more nuanced view of responses to shared issues of remembrance.
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- French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Literature and the war.
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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