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World war ii in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)
Jan Lensen (Author)
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World war ii in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature) - Jan Lensen
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Synopsis "World war ii in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)"
World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory offers a comparative study of the construction of World War II memory in contemporary German, Flemish, and Dutch literature. More specifically, it investigates in what ways the large temporal distance to the historical events has impacted how literary writers from these three literatures have negotiated its meaning and form during the last decades. To that end, this book offers analyses of nine novels that demonstrate a pronounced reflexivity on the conditions of contemporary remembering. Rather than a dig for historical truth or a struggle with historical trauma, these novels reflect on the transmission, the narrative shapes, the formation processes, and the functions of World War II memory today, while asserting a self-conscious and often irreverent approach toward established mnemonic routines, practices, and rules. As the analyses show, this approach is equally articulated through the novels’ poetics, which are marked by a large formal diversity and a playfulness that highlights mnemonic agency, a posttraumatic positioning, and the ascendency of the literary over the historiographical. Based on these findings, this book proposes the emergence of a new paradigm within the postwar cultural assessment of World War II: the generation of meta-memory.
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