On Their Own Terms

Name: On Their Own Terms
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ISBN: 9781902459370

ISBN-10: 1902459377

ISBN-13: 9781902459370

Edition: N/A

Authors: H. Schmitz

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List price: $89.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 6/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction : the return of the past : the legacy of National Socialism, memory culture and post-unification literature



Historisation



'All my writing has been "post-war"' - Hanns-Josef Ortheil's writing of remembrance and the end of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung



'I could not resolve this' - Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser



Perpetrators



'How could all this have happened?' - Ulla Berkewicz's Engel sind schwarz und weiss



'Just erase it : erase it all ' - Marcel Beyer's Flughunde



Hitler youth memories



'Nothing I did can be undone' - Ludwig Harig's Weh dem, der aus der Reihe tanzt



'How could one have known what value the events would have for memory?' - Martin Walser's Ein Springender Brunnen



War memories



'The collective is madness' - Dieter Wellershoff's Der Ernstfall



'Fire and sulphur fall from the sky' - Dieter Forte's Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen



'History is a clogged toilet' - Gunter Grass's Im Krebsgang



Victim perspective



'...only signs everywhere of the annihilation' - W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz