Edinburgh German Yearbook 9 (eBook, PDF)

Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture
Redaktion: Osborne, Dora

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945.



In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material found there, or the system that orders this material; in its broadest sense, it might refer to something public (records housed in a municipal building), or something private (photographs in a family album). The material and documentary qualities of the archive confer on it an authenticating function attributed only cautiously to memory, but theories of the archive have questioned the status of material, documentary vestiges of the past. Memory and the archive are inextricablylinked, but how does this affect the mediation of the past? This volume explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Contributions approach this topic froma range of perspectives (film, visual culture, urban culture, digital technology, as well as literature) and offer illuminating studies of Harun Farocki, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas Demand, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jürgen Fuchs, StefanWolter, and Sasa Stanisic.

Contributors: Priyanka Basu, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Regine Criser, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Diana Hitzke and Charlton Payne, Caitríona Leahy, Dora Osborne, Annie Ring, Lizzie Stewart, Simon Ward.

Dora Osborne is Lecturer in German at Durham University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782046431
• Artikelnr.: 56163516

Autorenporträt

Dora Osborne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Between Preservation and Destruction: Bernd and Hilla Becher's
Archive of "Anonymous Sculpture" Janos Frecot, Photographic Archives, and
the Zero Hours of Berlin Saving the Present: Anselm Kiefer as
Self-Archivist Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German
Archive Turkish-German Comedy Goes Archival: Alamanya-Willkommen in
Deutschland (2011) Echoes from the Archive: Retrieving and Re-viewing
Cinematic Remnants of the Nazi Past Harun Farocki's Critical Film Archive
Preserving the Self: Constructs of Memory and Biography in the Works of
Jürgen Fuchs Disruptions of the Archive: Renegotiating German History in
Autobiographical Fiction after 1989 Verbalizing Silence and Sorting
Garbage: Archiving Experiences of Displacement in Recent Post-Yugoslav
Fictions of Migration by Sasa Stanisic and Adriana Altaras