Silence and acts of memory : a postwar discourse on literature, history, Anna Seghers, and women in the Third Reich / Birgit Maier-Katkin

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Main Authors:Maier-Katkin, Birgit (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell Univ. Press, c 2007
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Online Access:Silence and acts of memory
Table of Contents
Anna Seghers: a woman's voice in literature and history
Literature, history and mnemonic voids
History, literature and past actuality
Silence and mnemonic voids
An attempt to pierce silence
Text and reader: a matter of social discourse
Silence at the heart of postwar discourse
The emergence of silence
The perseverance of silence
The past as silence: a generational discourse
History, literature, and the daily lives of ordinary people
Piercing the silence of everyday life
Ceremony and mnemonic construction
Piercing the silence: women and daily life
Seghers' literature: mnemonic flashes of daily life
Confronting the silence
Women in Nazi society
Mothers in Hitler's Germany
Women as Nazi sympathizers
Reflections on daily life and the banality of evil