Childness and the Writing of the German Past Tropes of Childhood in Contemporary German Literature.
Title:
Childness and the Writing of the German Past Tropes of Childhood in Contemporary German Literature.
Author:
Maguire, Nora.
ISBN:
9783035305647
9781306558785
9783034308809
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Series:
Studies in modern German and Austrian literature ; v. 1
Studies in modern German and Austrian literature ; v. 1.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Childness and the Discursive Landscapes of the 'New' Federal Republic; Part I Progress and Exculpation; Chapter 1 The Tabula Rasa and the Innocent Eye in Dieter Forte's Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen; Chapter 2 Childness and the 'New Right': Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen; Part II The Fascination of Innocence: Desire, Death and the Adult Gaze; Chapter 3 The Violence of Innocence in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde; Chapter 4 'Enchanted Hunters': Paedophilic Motifs in the Work of W.G. Sebald.
Chapter 5 Innocence, Death and Sebald's Structures of MourningPart III Childness and the Literary Construction of Memory; Chapter 6 Intimations of Mortality: Childhood Memory and the Child's Perspective in Sebald's 'Il ri; Chapter 7 The Dream of Wholeness: Childness, Memory and Subjectivity in Austerlitz; Conclusion: Childness and the Poetics of Persuasion; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study analyses how these authors employ tropes and myths of childhood in their engagements with Germany's National Socialist past, including the remembrance and representation of the Holocaust, German suffering and trauma, and the National Socialist 'everyday'. Their works are thus read as points of contact between the politics of the German past and the cultural construction of childhood. The term 'childne.
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