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Narratives of trauma : discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective / edited by Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı.

Other author/creatorSchmitz, Helmut.
Other author/creatorSeidel-Arpacı, Annette.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,
Description223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Portion of title Discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective
Series German monitor ; no. 73
German monitor ; no. 73. ^A686342
Contents "Killing us in a slow way instead of doing it with gas" : the German Catholic discourse of "suffering", 1946-59 / Suzanne Brown-Fleming -- Imperialist air war : East German academic research and memory politics reflected in the work of Olaf Groehler / Bas von Benda-Beckmann -- Hitler's legacy in concrete and steel : memory and civil defence bunkers in West Germany, 1950-65 / Nicholas J. Steneck -- Expressions of memory in Pforzheim, a city hit by air war / Christian Groh -- "Den Toten der ostdeutschen Heimat" : local expellee monuments and the construction of post-war narratives / Jeffrey Luppes -- Das Trauma der deutschen Kriegskinder zwischen nationaler und europäischer Erinnerung : kritische Anmerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Wandel der Erinnerungskultur / Michael Heinlein -- Double visions : queer feminity and Holocaust film / Cathy S. Gelbin -- Foundational traumas : on a figure of thought in recent German literature on wartime suffering / Helmut Schmitz -- German victimhood discourse in comparative perspective / Bill Niven -- Holland and the German point of view : on the Dutch reactions to German victimhood / Krijn Thijs -- The miracle workers : "German suffering", Israeli masculinity, and the feminised/queered nation as redemptive in Eytan Fox's Walk On Water / Annette Seidel-Arpaci.
General note"The chapters in this volume originate in a conference held at Leeds University in summer 2008"--P. 11.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageEnglish, with one contribution in German.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011403148
ISBN9789042033191 (alk. paper)
ISBN9042033193
ISBN9789042033207 (e-isbn)

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