World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction - The Generation of Meta-Memory

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
The Generation of Meta-Memory: An Introduction
Part I – Of Perpetrators and Victims
Chapter 1 – ‘Ein verwandter Ton’: The (Im)possibility of German Victimhood in Marcel Beyer’s Flughunde (1995)
Chapter 2 – ‘In Search of a More Bearable Tomb’: Narrative Integration and Heteroglossia in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)
Chapter 3 – The Comfort Corner of Victimhood: Holocaust Victimhood in Arnon Grunberg’s De joodse messias (2004)
Part II – Memory on the Move?
Chapter 4 – The Names of the Dead in Our Communal Cemeteries: The Case for a European Collective Memory in Koen Peeters’s Grote Europese roman (2007)
Chapter 5 – Claiming Memory Citizenship in Mano Bouzamour’s De belofte van Pisa (2014)
Chapter 6 – Moving in and out of the Feedback Loop: History and ‘Globital’ Memory in Peter Verhelst’s Zwerm (2005)
Part III – The Play with Memory
Chapter 7 – ‘Irgendwo zwischen Müllverbrennungsanlage und dem bleistiftförmigen Fallturm der Universität’: Personal Memory and Autofiction in Per Leo’s Flut und Boden (2014)
Chapter 8 – ‘Wir stören uns nicht daran’: Stylistic Refinement and the Play with Referentiality in Kevin Vennemann’s Nahe Jedenew (2005)
Chapter 9 – ‘With a stretched arm. Like Superman, not like Hitler’: Irreverent Play with Memory in Astronaut van Oranje (2013) by Andy Fierens and Michaël Brijs
Afterword: A Move out of the Grip of the Past?
Index

Summary

This book addresses how contemporary prose fiction from Germany, Flanders, and the Netherlands deals with the memory of World War II. More in particular, it offers an investigation of how the temporal distance to the war events affects matters of form and content in these contemporary narratives.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Lensen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367473730
• ISBN: 978-0-367-47373-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 2000, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General