Literature, memory and nation

Walder, Dennis (2003). Literature, memory and nation. In: ed. War, Culture and Memory. Milton Keynes, UK: The Open University, pp. 69–102.

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Abstract

A study of Bernhard Schlink's controversial novel The Reader (1997) and Paul Celan's 'todesfuge'(1948) as an exploration of the ambivalence of recalling memories of collective trauma and mourning within the context of modern german nation-building.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	0-7492-9611-9, 978-0-7492-9611-7
Keywords:	Bernhard Schlink;The Reader;german national trauma; memory;paul celan; todesfuge;women and the holocaust;german women
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Research Group:	Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
Item ID:	3562
Depositing User:	Dennis Walder
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2006
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2019 08:24
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3562
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