We Shall Be Punished’
Positionality and Postmemory in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room and Uwe Timm’s In My Brother’s Shadow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Berberich (0000-0002-7983-7617, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 261-282 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2011.11087288 |
| OpenAlex | W2946535913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
During the Second World War, the German officer Wilm Hosenfeld, on duty in Poland, wrote about the war atrocities committed by his country, ‘We shall be punished for it. And so will our innocent children, for we are colluding when we allow these crimes to be committed.’ Taking this diary entry as its starting point, this essay assesses Rachel Seiffert’s 2001 novel The Dark Room and Uwe Timm’s 2005 autobiographical novella In My Brother’s Shadow in the light of contemporary German victim and collective guilt discourses, transposing Marianne Hirsch’s term ‘postmemory’ on to the children of the perpetrators
Art · Art history · Brother · Duty · German · Literature · Novella · Officer · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |