| Description |
1 online resource (180 pages) |
| Series |
Protest, culture, and society ; v. 9 |
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Protest, culture and society ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
The German Student Movement andthe Literary Imagination; Protest, Culture and Society; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Trans/National Memories of 1968; Chapter 1: Remember? 1968 in German Fiction; Chapter 2: Forget it? 1968 in East Germany; Chapter 3: Transatlantic Encounters between Germany and the United States as Intercultural Exchange and Generational Conflict; Chapter 4: Transnational Memories: 1968 and Turkish-German Authors; Conclusion: Continued Taboos, Confirmed Canons; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book 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 contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers' understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-170) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Student movements in literature.
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Opposition (Political science) in literature.
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Social conflict in literature.
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Memory in literature.
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Literature and transnationalism.
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Social change in literature.
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Literature and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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German fiction
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature and society
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Literature and transnationalism
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Memory in literature
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Opposition (Political science) in literature
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Social change in literature
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Social conflict in literature
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Student movements in literature
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European history.
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German.
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Germany.
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Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
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Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857457554 |
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0857457551 |
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1299777570 |
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9781299777576 |
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9780857457547 |
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0857457543 |
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