Narratives of trauma
Subtitle: discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective
By: edited by Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpacı
Series: German monitor -- no. 73; German monitor -- no. 73.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789042033191; 9789042033207
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Population transfers; War victims; Motion pictures and the war; Congresses; World War, 1939-1945; Destruction and pillage; History; Germans; Literature and the war
Other titles: Discourses of German wartime suffering in national and international perspective
Notes: "The chapters in this volume originate in a conference held at Leeds University in summer 2008"--P. 11.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English, with one contribution in German.
Table of contents: title: "Killing us in a slow way instead of doing it with gas" : the German Catholic discourse of "suffering", 1946-59 / Suzanne Brown-Fleming; title: Imperialist air war : East German academic research and memory politics reflected in the work of Olaf Groehler / Bas von Benda-Beckmann; title: Hitler's legacy in concrete and steel : memory and civil defence bunkers in West Germany, 1950-65 / Nicholas J. Steneck; title: Expressions of memory in Pforzheim, a city hit by air war / Christian Groh; title: "Den Toten der ostdeutschen Heimat" : local expellee monuments and the construction of post-war narratives / Jeffrey Luppes; title: Das Trauma der deutschen Kriegskinder zwischen nationaler und europäischer Erinnerung : kritische Anmerkungen zum gegenwärtigen Wandel der Erinnerungskultur / Michael Heinlein; title: Double visions : queer feminity and Holocaust film / Cathy S. Gelbin; title: Foundational traumas : on a figure of thought in recent German literature on wartime suffering / Helmut Schmitz; title: German victimhood discourse in comparative perspective / Bill Niven; title: Holland and the German point of view : on the Dutch reactions to German victimhood / Krijn Thijs; title: The miracle workers : "German suffering", Israeli masculinity, and the feminised/queered nation as redemptive in Eytan Fox's Walk On Water / Annette Seidel-Arpaci.