Format:
Online-Ressource (377 p.)
ISBN:
9780521804134
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
This collection of essays does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and World War II; 2 Between Pain and Silence; 3 Paths of Normalization after the Persecution of the Jews; 4 Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood; 5 Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945; 6 "Going Home"; 7 Desperately Seeking Normality; 8 Family Life and "Normality" in Postwar British Culture; 9 Continuities and Discontinuities of Consumer Mentality in West Germany in the 1950s; 10 "Strengthened and Purified Through Ordeal by Fire"
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11 The Nationalization of Victimhood12 Italy after Fascism; 13 The Politics of Post-Fascist Aesthetics; 14 Dissonance, Normality, and the Historical Method; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511072147
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521804134
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Life after Death : Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s
Language:
English
Keywords:
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