Postcatastrophic entanglement? Contemporary Czech writers remember the holocaust and post-war ethnic cleansing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anja Tippner (0000-0001-6903-1145, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-94 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698020976463 |
| OpenAlex | W3129595985 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
The last two decades have seen a rising interest in the Holocaust and the expulsion of ethnic Germans after World War II in Czech literature. Novels by Hana Androníková, Radka Denemarková, Magdalena Platzová, Kateřina Tučková, and Jáchym Topol share a quest for a new poetics of remembrance. Informed by contemporary discussions about Czech memory politics, these novels are characterised by spectral visions of Germans and Jews alike, a dichotomy of trauma and nostalgia, and an understanding of Czech history as postcatastrophically entangled and thus calling for multidirectional forms of remembrance. In this respect, literary memorial forms compensate for the absence of other memorial forms addressing these topics through a transnational lens. The interaction of different historical points of view is achieved by a time frame extending from the war to the present day and stressing the intercultural dynamics of Czechs, Jews, and Germans retroactively. In order to illustrate this entanglement, authors make use of popular genres, such as romance, and create texts shaped by genre fluidity, memory theory, documentary practices, and concepts of transnationality
Aesthetics · Art · Czech · Ethnic Cleansing · Ethnic group · Genocide · Intertextuality · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · The Holocaust · Vision · Anthropology · Central European Literary Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
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Surviving Images
Who Owns Auschwitz
Bloodlands
Iron Curtain
The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
Multidirectional Memory
The Generation of Postmemory
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |