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Der Band untersucht die autobiographischen Projekte von Saul Friedländer und Ruth Klüger im Kontext ihres wissenschaftlichen Werkes. Sowohl Friedländer als auch Klüger betonen in ihren theoretischen Essays, dass die Interpretationen wissenschaftlicher Dokumente niemals losgelöst vom kulturellen und historischen Kontext und dem persönlichen Hintergrund des Interpreten entstehen. Eine definitive, allgemeingültige Deutung historischer und literarischer Dokumente existiert folglich nicht. Dies gilt ebenso und in besonderem Maße für die Annäherung an die persönliche Vergangenheit -kann diese doch immer nur über den Akt autobiographischen Erinnerns (re)konstruiert werden. Trotz ihrer Betonung der Kontextabhängigkeit von Interpretationen, die eine Vielzahl möglicher Deutungen impliziert, gehen jedoch weder Friedländer noch Klüger so weit, den referentiellen Charakter von Sprache in Frage zu stellen und die Grenze zwischen Fakten und Fiktion aufzulösen. Sowohl ihr autobiographisches als auch ihr wissenschaftliches Werk stehen vielmehr im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem Bewusstsein für die Vorläufigkeit und Subjektivität jeder Interpretation einerseits - und dem Anliegen andererseits, auf eine außerhalb des Textes bestehende Realität zu verweisen. Damit nähern sich Friedländer und Klüger von den Polen ihrer traditionell entgegengesetzten wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen an: der an ,objektiven', nachprüfbaren Fakten orientierten Geschichtswissenschaft - und der Literaturwissenschaft, in deren Mittelpunkt die Auseinandersetzung mit Fiktion steht.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jewish authors --- Autobiography --- Autobiography of Jews --- Jewish autobiography --- Authors --- Historiography. --- History and criticism. --- Jewish authors. --- Friedländer, Saul, --- Klüger, Ruth, --- Angress, R. K. --- פרידלנדר, שאול --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Friedländer, Saul --- Autobiography / in Literature. --- History of Literature. --- Jews / Literature. --- Friedlander, Saul, --- Kluger, Ruth,
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Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different. Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and flows of people. This book explores the representation and performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers "narrativize" aging. Finally, it examines the "timeliness" of these different representations and late-style performances of aging in the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power away from the declining societies of the West to the ascendant societies of the East. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.
German literature --- Old age in literature. --- Aging in literature. --- Older people in literature --- History and criticism. --- Grass, Günter, --- Klüger, Ruth, --- Wolf, Christa --- Walser, Martin, --- Volf, Krista --- Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete --- Angress, R. K. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Grass, Günter --- Грасс, Гюнтер --- גראס, גינטר, --- Ґрас, Ґюнтер --- Gras, Gi︠u︡nter --- Girās, Gūntir --- Grās, Gūntir --- گونتر، گراس, --- Aging. --- Christa Wolf. --- Germany. --- Günter Grass. --- Intergenerational Relationships. --- Late Period. --- Martin Walser. --- Old-Age Style. --- Ruth Klüger. --- Social, Political, Economic Power. --- Trauma. --- Western Countries.
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In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women’s testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors’ search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that unites the four chapters, Loew eschews essentialism and revises the emergence of the field of Women and Holocaust studies from the early 1980's on, and signals some of its shortcomings. In response, and in accordance with a recent turn in various disciplines of the Humanities, Loew highlights the ethical dimension of testimony and its responsible commitment to the other. In dealing with the texts as literary testimonies—a complex genre, between literature and history—, testimony is freed from the obligation to respond to the requirements of factual truth, and becomes a privileged form to voice the traumatic event, and to symbolically explore the role of excess.
Holocaust survivors. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Women authors --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. --- Women authors. --- Authors, Women --- Female authors --- Women as authors --- Authors --- Women and literature --- Survivors, Holocaust --- Victims --- Delbo, Charlotte. --- Klüger, Ruth, --- Duras, Marguerite. --- Buber-Neumann, Margarete, --- Angress, R. K. --- Di͡uras, Marherit --- Doras, Margerête --- Doras, Margrête --- Du, Lasi --- Dulasi, Magolite --- Dûras, Margrît --- Dwirasŭ, Marŭgŭritt --- Tu, La-ssu --- Tu-la-ssu, Ma-ko-li-tʻe --- Twirasŭ, Marŭgŭritt --- Buber, Margarete, --- Buber-Neĭman, Margarete, --- Faust, Anna Margarete, --- Faust, Margarete Anna, --- Neumann, Margarete Buber-, --- Duras, Marguerite --- デュラス, マルグリット --- デュラス, M. --- Dwirasŭ, Marŭgŭrittŭ --- Twirasŭ, Marŭgŭrittŭ --- Di︠u︡ras, Marherit --- Дюрас, Маргерит --- דיראס, מרגריט --- Donnadieu, Marguerite, --- 1900 - 1999 --- Duras, Marguerite, --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Prison psychology --- Psychological aspects. --- דלבו, שרלוט
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