Mary Cosgrove

Born under Auschwitz (eBook, PDF)

Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.

In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods, Romanticism, and the crisis of modernity. This association, alongside the dominant psychoanalytical view of melancholy in German memory discourses since the 1960s, has led to its neglect as an important literary mode in postwar German literature, a situation the present book seeks to redress by identifying and analyzing epochal postwar works that use melancholy traditions to comment on German history in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It focuses on five writers - Günter Grass, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald, and Iris Hanika - who reflect on the legacy of Auschwitz as intellectuals trying to negotiate a relationship to the past based on the stigma of belonging to a perpetrator collective (Grass, Sebald, Hanika) or, broadly speaking, to the victim collective (Weiss, Hildesheimer), in order to develop a melancholy ethics of memory for the Holocaust and the Nazi past. It will appeal to scholars and students of German Studies,Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Memory, and Holocaust Studies.

Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571138897
• Artikelnr.: 56163406

Autorenporträt

Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House, 2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In Defense of Melancholy The Diseased Imagination:
Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke
and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in
Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante The Feminine Holocaust: Gender,
Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands From
the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial
Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's Work Epilogue: Death of
the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to
Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche
Bibliography Index