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Zusatztext [ Born After ] is a powerful meditation on love and death, guilt and atonement, and memory and imagination, as well as a recognition of reason and its limitations when confronting history's brutal realities. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through faculty. Informationen zum Autor Angelika Bammer is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University, USA. She is the author of The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s (Peter Lang, Revised edition, 2015; Routledge, 1st edition, 1991). She is the editor of Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question (Indiana University Press, 1994). Zusammenfassung A 2020 Prose Award Finalist What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? A major and original contribution to thinking about and grappling with the legacies of German and Nazi history, this book reflects on the relationship between history and memory through the personal narrative of a postwar German intellectual. Arguing that the pasts that haunt usare shaped both by the things people did and suffered and the affective traces the past leaves in memory, Born After is a powerful meditation on questions of guilt, complicity, loss, and longing. With bracing honesty and without sentimentality, Bammer draws on her own family story to think anew about a history that we have come to accept as familiar. Inflecting questions about history with questions about ethics, her book speaks to all those concerned with historical pasts that remain unreconciled. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Swastika Raincoat Part One: The Trouble with German In the AftermathLost in the Past Following the CluesFamily TiesBetween the Word-GapsAmbushed by HistoryPassing through BitburgResident AlienProof of Ancestry Part Two: Walking to Buchenwald Into the Past Walking to Buchenwald The Quiet Dignity of Being True Once Upon a Wartime A World in Letters Part Three: There Was a Butcher Here, Once A Longing Called HomeMemories of WarMemories of BetrayalThere Was a Butcher Here, OnceMy Nazi FamilySources and Acknowledgments NotesIndex...
