UID:
almahu_9949703261402882
Format:
1 online resource (404 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789401201919
Series Statement:
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 60
Content:
Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand the contours and historical context of the debates about the German public discourse on the bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators and victims. The volume will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and the general reading public interested in warfare and its effects on civilian populations.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Uncovering their Stories: The Rubble of Memory and the Bombing War /
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Air War and Allegory /
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Abschied von der Zentralperspektive. Der nicht nur literarische Geschichtsdiskurs im Nachwende-Deutschland als Dispositiv für Jörg Friedrichs Brand /
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Infinite Closures: Narrative(s) of Bombing in Historiography and Literature on the Borderline between Fact and Fiction /
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"Das sind meine lieben Toten" - Walter Kempowskis "Echolot"-Projekt /
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Holding Fast to Ruins: The Air War in Brecht's Kriegsfibel /
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East Germany and the Bombing War /
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Die gepolsterte Nussschale des Bootes - Der Luftkrieg aus der Sicht skandinavischer Korrespondenten /
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W.G. Sebalds Luftkrieg und Literatur und die Folgen: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme /
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Religiöse Bildlichkeit und transtextuelle Bezüge in Gert Ledigs Luftkriegsroman Vergeltung /
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"Mich für mein ganzes Leben verletzendes Geschehen als Erlebnis": Die Luftangriffe auf Salzburg (1944) in Thomas Bernhards Die Ursache und Alexander Kluges Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945 /
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"Das war nicht mehr wie vor Ilion": Servicemen, Civilians and the Air War in Gerd Gaiser's Die sterbende Jagd /
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"Das stanniolene Rascheln der Weinblätter": Hans Erich Nossack und der Luftkrieg /
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"Children of the Blitz": Air War and the Time of Postmodernism in Michael Moorcock's Mother London /
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Death by Moonlight: A Canadian Debate Over Guilt, Grief and Remembering the Hamburg Raids /
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Debunking 'The Good War' Myth: Howard Nemerov's War Poetry /
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Art and the Air Campaigns of 1940/41 and 1945: Visual Representations of the London and Dresden Bombing Raids /
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Memory Cultures: The Imperial War Museum North and W.G. Sebald's Natural History of Destruction /
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Keep 'Em Flying High: How American Air Museums Create and Foster Themes of the World War II Air War /
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Bombing Memories in Braun's Zwischen Gestern und Morgen (1947): Flashbacks to the Recent Past in the German Rubble-Film /
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The Allied Air Bombing Campaign of Germany in Herzog's Little Dieter Needs to Fly /
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Hollywood's Celluloid Air War /
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Ninety Minutes over Tokyo: Aesthetics, Narrative, and Ideology in Three Japanese Films about the Air War /
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'It Began with Coventry': On Expanding the Debate over the Bombing War /
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16 English, 7 German contributions.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bombs Away!: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2006, ISBN 9789042017597
Language:
English
