Helmut Schmitz
Ashgate
Hardback
192
2001
Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbew?ltigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates.
Ashgate
Hardback
192
2001
Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbew?ltigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates.