The multiplicities of memories in contemporary German literature
Subtitle: how photographs are used to reconstruct narratives of history
By: Susanne Lenné Jones ; with a foreword by Katharina Gerstenberger
Contributors: Gerstenberger, Katharina, 1961-, author
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780773442924
Subjects: German literature; History and criticism; Memory in literature; Literature and photography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. What's in a frame?: Photography, memory, and history; title: 2. "The quest for memory is the search for one's history": Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe; title: 3. Poetics of uncertainty: W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz; title: 4. Path(s) to the truth: Irina Liebmann's Stille Mitte von Berlin.