From ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ to Generational Memory Contests in Günter Grass, Monika Maron and Uwe Timm
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9854415 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Amrei Fuchs (0000-0002-2653-1534, autor de correspondencia), Anne Fuchs |
| Año | 2006 |
| Volumen | 59 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 169-186 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2006-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | German Life and Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0016-8777 • E-ISSN: 1468-0483 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0016-8777.2006.00343.x |
| OpenAlex | W1968222021 |
| Idioma | DE |
| Citas recibidas | 4 |
| Referencias citadas | 5 |
Against the backdrop of the proliferation of trauma theory in public and academic debates, the paper argues that in spite of a recent trend to question the canonised discourse of contrition, German discussions about the legacy of the Nazi past are still largely dominated by the following two paradigms: a first psychoanalytic narrative tells a drama of repression, acting out and repetition compulsion, and a second narrative then restores the Enlightenment paradigm through its story of critical engagement with the past. In order to avoid the pitfall of an unhelpful demonisation of forgetting on the one hand, and the danger of a displaced sacralisation of the Holocaust on the other, the paper introduces the notion of memory contests into the debate. Provisionally defined as retrospective imaginings that simultaneously articulate, question and investigate the normative self‐image of previous generations, this notion accounts for the intergenerational dynamic of recent German identity debates. The dynamic of post‐‘Wende’ memory contests is explored with reference to recent works by Grass, Maron and Timm
Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Epistemology · German · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Narratology · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Repetition (rhetorical device · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · German History and Society · History · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citas por año | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |