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.

URL: http://www.ouw.co.uk/products/AA300_03.shtm

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.

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• Item ORO ID
• 3562
• 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 or 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)
• Depositing User
• Dennis Walder