BOOK
European Memories of the Second World War
Helmut Peitsch | Charles Burdett | Claire Gorrara
(1999)
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Abstract
During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.
"There is no question that this is a timely volume ... [that] provide[s] a basis for a genuinely interdisciplinary, transnational comparative discussion ... [and] could represent an important point of reference for all discussions of how to conceptualize historical memory." · Robert Moeller, University of California, Irvine
"... a well focused collection of articles, all of which are of a good scholarly standard and some of which are strikingly original or illuminating." · Michael Kelly, University of Southampton
After having received his PhD and Habilitation from the Free University Berlin, Helmut Peitsch moved to Britain, where he held a number of academic positions. Since 1994, he has been Professor of European Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Charles Burdett received his PhD from the University of Oxford and was appointed Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Claire Gorrara received her PhD from the University of Oxford and in 1994 was appointed Lecturer in French at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUROPEAN MEMORIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR | 1 | ||
| CONTENTS | 5 | ||
| PREFACE | 9 | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 13 | ||
| PART I. THE GERMAN SOLDIER’S MEMORY | 33 | ||
| 1. PRIVATE AND PUBLIC FILTERS: MEMORIES OF WAR IN HEINRICH BÖLL’S FICTION AND NONFICTION | 34 | ||
| PART II. THE RESISTANCE MEMORY | 43 | ||
| 2. ORDINARY HEROINES: RESISTANCE AND ROMANCE IN THE WAR FICTION OF ELSA TRIOLET | 44 | ||
| 3. ‘THIS BOOK DOES NOT WANT TO BE A WORK OF ART. THIS BOOK IS TRUTH. ’THE DIARIES OF RUTH ANDREAS-FRIEDRICH | 55 | ||
| 4. A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN GIOVANNA ZANGRANDI’S RESISTANCE NARRATIVES | 67 | ||
| The Male Resister | 77 | ||
| 5. VERCORS – WRITING THE UNSPEAKABLE: FROM LE SILENCE DE LA MER (1942) TO LA PUISSANCE DU JOUR (1951) | 78 | ||
| 6. ‘A HISTORY FULL OF HOLES’? FRANCE AND THE FRENCH RESISTANCE IN THE WORK OF STEPHAN HERMLIN | 87 | ||
| 7. WAR, CIVIL WAR AND THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE IN CALVINO AND PAVESE | 99 | ||
| 8. IMAGINING LOSERS IN BUFALINO’S DICERIA DELL’UNTORE | 110 | ||
| PART III. THE FASCIST’S MEMORY | 119 | ||
| 9. MEMORY AND CHRONICLE: LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE AND THE D’UN CHÂTEAU L’AUTRE TRILOGY | 120 | ||
| 10. PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A DEAD MAN. ERNST JÜNGER’S WRITING IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: STRAHLUNGEN | 131 | ||
| 11. CHANGING IDENTITIES THROUGH MEMORY: MALAPARTE’S SELF-FIGURATIONS IN KAPUTT | 142 | ||
| PART IV. THE VICTIM’S MEMORY | 153 | ||
| 12. REVIEWING MEMORY: WIESEL, TESTIMONY AND SELF-READING | 154 | ||
| 13. PRIMO LEVI. THE DUTY OF MEMORY | 163 | ||
| 14. LA DOULEUR: DURAS, AMNESIA AND DESIRE | 173 | ||
| 15. MYTH, MEMORY, TESTIMONY, JEWISHNESS IN GRETE WEIL’S MEINE SCHWESTER ANTIGONE | 181 | ||
| PART V. THE MEDIA OF MEMORY: MAY 1968 AND CINEMA | 191 | ||
| 16. L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES AND LE CHAGRIN ET LA PITIÉ: RECONFIGURATIONS OF LAW, LEGALITIES AND THE STATE IN POST-1968 FRANCE | 192 | ||
| 17. ALEXANDER KLUGE:GERMANY – AN EXPERIENCE OF WORDS AND IMAGES | 207 | ||
| 18. FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM REVIEWED: GENERATIONS, HISTORY AND FILM IN ITALY AFTER 1968 | 217 | ||
| PART VI. WOMEN’S WRITING AND THE QUEST FOR THE FATHER | 233 | ||
| 19. REMEMBERING THE COLLABORATING FATHER IN MARIE CHAIX’S LES LAURIERS DU LAC DE CONSTANCE AND EVELYNE LE GARREC’S LA RIVE ALLEMANDE | 234 | ||
| 20. SEEING THE FATHER: MEMORY AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN ELISABETH PLESSEN’S MITTEILUNG AN DEN ADEL | 243 | ||
| 21. INTIMATIONS OF PATRIARCHY: MEMORIES OF WARTIME JAPAN INDACIA MARAINI’S BAGHERIA | 252 | ||
| PART VII. A CHILD’S MEMORY | 261 | ||
| 22. A CHILD IN TIME: PATRICK MODIANO AND THE MEMORY OF THE OCCUPATION | 262 | ||
| 23. CHILDHOOD MEMORY AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: CHRISTA WOLF’S KINDHEITSMUSTER | 270 | ||
| 24. STRATEGIES FOR REMEMBERING: AUSCHWITZ, MOTHER AND WRITING IN EDITH BRUCK | 279 | ||
| PART VIII. AFTER THE COLD WAR: EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY | 289 | ||
| 25. TRAUMA AND ABSENCE | 290 | ||
| 26. NONRATIONAL DISCOURSE IN A WORK OF REASON: PETER WEISS’S ANTI-FASCIST NOVEL DIE ÄSTHETIK DES WIDERSTANDS | 304 | ||
| 27. FIFTY YEARS ON: GERMAN CHILDREN OF THE WAR REMEMBER | 313 | ||
| 28. MEMORIES OF RESISTANCE, RESISTANCES OF MEMORY | 320 | ||
| NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 329 | ||
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 334 | ||
| INDEX | 358 |