European Memories of the Second World War

by Peitsch, Helmut; Burdett, Charles; Gorrara, Claire

• ISBN13: 9781845451585
• ISBN10: 1845451589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Studying European Literary Memories	xiii
Helmut Peitsch
The German Soldier's Memory
Private and Public Filters: Memories of War in Heinrich Boll's Fiction and Nonfiction	2	(10)
J.H. Reid
The Resistance Memory
The Female Resister
Ordinary Heroines: Resistance and Romance in the War Fiction of Elsa Triolet	12	(11)
Diana Holmes
`This Book Does Not Want to Be a Work of Art. This Book Is Truth.' The Diaries of Ruth Andreas-Friedrich	23	(12)
Irmela von der Luhe
A Woman's Perspective: Autobiography and History in Giovanna Zangrandi's Resistance Narratives	35	(11)
Penny Morris
The Male Resister
Vercors -- Writing the Unspeakable: From Le Silence de la mer (1942) to La Puissance du jour (1951)	46	(9)
William Kidd
`A History Full of Holes'? France and the French Resistance in the Work of Stephan Hermlin	55	(12)
Dennis Tate
War, Civil War and the Problem of Violence in Calvino and Pavese	67	(11)
Sarah Morgan
Imagining Losers in Bufalino's Diceria dell'untore	78	(10)
Peter Hainsworth
The Fascist's Memory
Memory and Chronicle: Louis-Ferdinand Celine and the D'un chateau I'autre Trilogy	88	(11)
Nicholas Hewitt
Portrait of the Poet as a Dead Man. Ernst Junger's Writing in the Second World War: Strahlungen	99	(11)
Justus Fetscher
Changing Identities Through Memory: Malaparte's Self-figurations in Kaputt	110	(12)
Charles Burdett
The Victim's Memory
Reviewing Memory: Wiesel, Testimony and Self-reading	122	(9)
Colin Davis
Primo Levi. The Duty of Memory	131	(10)
Robert Gordon
La Douleur: Duras, Amnesia and Desire	141	(8)
Emma Wilson
Myth, Memory, Testimony, Jewishness in Grete Weil's Meine Schwester Antigone	149	(11)
Moray McGowan
The Media of Memory: May 1968 and Cinema
L'Armee des ombres and Le Chagrin et la pitie: Reconfigurations of Law, Legalities and the State in Post-1968 France	160	(15)
Margaret Atack
Alexander Kluge: Germany -- An Experience of Words and Images	175	(10)
Klaus R. Scherpe
Fascism and Anti-fascism Reviewed: Generations, History and Film in Italy after 1968	185	(17)
David Forgacs
Women's Writing and the Quest for the Father
Remembering the Collaborating Father in Marie Chaix's Les Lauriers du lac de Constance and Evelyne Le Garrec's La Rive allemande de ma memoire	202	(9)
Claire Gorrara
Seeing the Father: Memory and Identity Construction in Elisabeth Plessen's Mitteilung an den Adel	211	(9)
Anne Moss
Intimations of Patriarchy: Memories of Wartime Japan in Dacia Maraini's Bagheria	220	(10)
Judith Bryce
A Child's Memory
A Child in Time: Patrick Modiano and the Memory of the Occupation	230	(8)
Alan Morris
Childhood Memory and Moral Responsibility: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster	238	(9)
Chris Weedon
Strategies for Remembering: Auschwitz, Mother and Writing in Edith Bruck	247	(11)
Adalgisa Giorgio
After the Cold War: European Literature and the Politics of Memory
Trauma and Absence	258	(14)
Omer Bartov
Nonrational Discourse in a Work of Reason: Peter Weiss's Anti-fascist Novel Die Asthetik des Widerstands	272	(9)
Robert Cohen
Fifty Years On: German Children of the War Remember	281	(7)
Jost Hermand
Memories of Resistance, Resistances of Memory	288	(9)
Luisa Passerini
Notes on Contributors	297	(5)
Bibliography	302	(24)
Index	326