Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged theHolocaust's singularity, calling for the traumas of the Stali...

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1. Verfasser:	Ortner, Jessica ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Rochester, N.Y. Camden House 2022
Schriftenreihe:	Dialogue and disjunction: studies in Jewish German literature, culture, and thought 10
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1989-2021 Literatur Deutsch Judenvernichtung > Motiv Migrantenliteratur Juden German Literature German History East European Studies The Holocaust Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 HISTORY / Holocaust LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
Zusammenfassung:	Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged theHolocaust's singularity, calling for the traumas of the Stalinist Gulag to be acknowledged much more explicitly. Thus even though Europe has been unified politically, it is divided by its diverging perceptions of the past.Jessica Ortner argues that German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe and the GDR who migrated to Germany as refugees during or after the Cold War have responded critically to the need to widen European cultural memory to include thetraumatic experiences of the East. The writers focused on include Katja Petrowskaja, Olga Grjasnowa, Lena Gorelik, Vladimir Vertlib, and Barbara Honigmann. A central focus of the book is the "traveling of memories" from Eastern Europe and the GDR to (Western) Germany and Austria. Introducing the term "literature of mnemonic migration," Ortner asserts that these authors' writings negotiate the mnemonic divide between East and West. They criticize the normative memory politics of both Germany and the Soviet Union and address not only the politically explosive question of how to remember both National Socialism and Communism but also the status of Jews in contemporary Germany.JESSICA ORTNER is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Beschreibung:	285 Seiten
ISBN:	9781640140226