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The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent
Susanne Rinner
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Hardback. Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382. Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. 180 pages. Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 15. Weight: 382.
Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this seemingly German memory contest by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape the readers' understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War and to the legacy of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans ... Read more
Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this seemingly German memory contest by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape the readers' understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War and to the legacy of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Protest, Culture and Society
Condition
New
Weight
381g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857457547
SKU
V9780857457547
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About Susanne Rinner
Susanne Rinner is Assistant Professor of German Studies and regular program faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies Programat the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Most recently, she edited a special issue of International Poetry Review with a focus on poetry written in German by bilingual and multicultural poets. She has published several articles on contemporary German literature and ... Read more
Reviews for The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent
This is a thoughtful study of the current discourse surrounding the important role of literature in shaping cultural memory - The case of the literary representation of the German '1968' is particularly interesting as it reveals a continuing preoccupation with the traumatic effects of Germany's past.
Ingo Cornils, University of Leeds
Ingo Cornils, University of Leeds