Wem gehört die Geschichte? : Fakten und Fiktionen in der neueren deutschen Erinnerungsliteratur
- This essay discusses the distinct features of memory fiction, a new genre that has emerged during the last two decades. It works through memories of the Nazi past and traumatic episodes of the Second World War within new literary frameworks. In this orientation towards the past the memory novel maintains distance from the research of historical reconstruction, as well as from the popular presentation of the past in the visual mass media. With respect to the new literary genre, various questions arise concerning its status and quality. One of these concerns the distinction anti interplay between fictional and documentary features in the new format. Another one has to do with the emphasis on biographical experience that in many cases has become an important trigger and source for the text, endowing it with the stamp of authenticity or moral authority. It is also true, however, that war-related experience, trauma and suffering can no longer be claimed by members of the second and third generation who either write their own lives into the chain of generations connected with the Second World War and the Holocaust, or create a new access to central events of the traumatic national history from the perspective of a fictional private family. In both ways they testify to the aftermath of the traumatic past which, as they show, is still part of the present.
Author: | Aleida Assmann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364409 |
ISSN: | 0340-4528 |
Parent Title (German): | Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur |
Publisher: | De Gruyter |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of Completion: | 2015 |
Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2015/01/06 |
GND Keyword: | Erinnerung; Literatur; deutsch; Geschichtsbewusstsein; Autobiographie |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 9 |
First Page: | 213 |
Last Page: | 225 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 367485117 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 19.00.00 1990 bis zur Gegenwart / BDSL-Klassifikation: 19.00.00 1990 bis zur Gegenwart > 19.09.00 Stoffe. Motive. Themen |
19.00.00 1990 bis zur Gegenwart / BDSL-Klassifikation: 19.00.00 1990 bis zur Gegenwart > 19.06.00 Literarisches Leben | |
Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GindokWeimar |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |