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Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter of Jewish émigrés (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Dückers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of inspiration, reverberation, refraction, incongruity, and ambiguity. Focusing on genealogies of women, the book delineates a different cultural memory than the counting of (male-inflected) generations and a male-dominated Holocaust and postwar literature canon. It examines intergenerational conflicts and the negotiation of memories against the backdrop of a complicated mother-daughter relationship that follows unpredictable patterns and provokes both discord and empathy. Schaumann's approach questions the assumption that German-gentile and German-Jewish postwar experiences are necessarily diametrically opposed (i.e. respond to a "negative symbiosis") and uncovers intersections and continuities in addition to conflicts.

German literature --- Collective memory and literature. --- Women and literature --- National socialism in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Literature and collective memory --- Literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Collective memory and literature --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature --- National socialism in literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Holocaust (in literature). --- National Socialism (in literature). --- Women's literature. --- generation.

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Despite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors - Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger, Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Grete Weil and Monika Maron - who all published personal texts after 1989 dealing either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in some cases both. By means of close textual analysis, Evans explores the impact these regimes had on the individuals concerned and the contrasting ways in which the authors handle the autobiographical project. They adopt varying textual strategies to render the self on the page, with some employing overt fiction, and yet in each case, the project was clearly motivated by the need to treat psychological wounds inflicted on the self by totalitarianism. In their mapping of the contours of oppression, the texts at the heart of this study combine to offer a powerful defence of literary autobiography, in Germany at least, as a valuable means of tackling the legacy of totalitarianism.

German literature --- National socialism in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Socialism in literature. --- Totalitarianism and literature. --- Totalitarianism --- Literature and totalitarianism --- History and criticism. --- Germany --- History --- Fiction.

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Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism has been both mediated and mythologised to the extent that it now often replaces a critical engagement with actual, violent history.

National socialism in literature. --- National socialism in motion pictures. --- Nazis in motion pictures. --- National socialism in art. --- Fascism in motion pictures. --- Germans in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures -- Germany -- History. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war. --- Fascism in literature --- National socialism in literature --- National socialism in motion pictures --- Nazis in motion pictures --- National socialism in art --- Languages & Literatures --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Literature - General --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and the war. --- History. --- World War, 1939-1945, in motion pictures --- Fascism in literature.

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This paper presents a new, interdisciplinary method to adequately interpret Elfriede Jelinek’s texts, integrating contemporary historical theories of fascism, national-socialism and the Austrian victim myth into the exemplary literary analysis. In dieser Studie wird eine neue, interdisziplinäre Methode zur Interpretation von Elfriede Jelineks literarischen Texten angeboten, die fundiertes zeithistorisches Wissen über Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Opfermythos in die exemplarische Textanalyse miteinbezieht.

Victims in literature. --- Fascism in literature. --- National socialism in literature. --- Sacrifice in literature. --- Jelinek, Elfriede, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Austria --- History --- Historiography. --- Elfriede Jelinek --- National Socialism --- Austrian victim-myth --- Literary Deconstruction --- Fascism --- Intertextuality --- Nationalsozialismus --- Faschismus --- Opfermythos --- Dekonstruktion --- Intertextualität --- Köln --- Österreich --- Weimar --- Wien

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This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers – in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schäfer, Emil Strauß, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and Rudolf Binding – it examines the continuities in völkisch-nationalist thought in Germany from c. 1890 into the post-war period and the ways in which völkisch-nationalists identified themselves in opposition to four successive German regimes: the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic.

Germany -- Politics and government. --- Germany -- Social conditions. --- Germany -- Social life and customs. --- German literature --- Politics and literature --- National socialism in literature --- Fascism in literature --- Nationalism in literature --- National socialism --- Fascism --- Nationalism --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Theory of the State --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Neo-fascism --- Nazism --- History and criticism --- History --- Germany --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Corporate state --- Synarchism --- Totalitarianism --- Nazis --- Neo-Nazism --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Causes --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- 1900 - 1999