…Buchbesprechungen
Caroline Schaumann: Memory Matters. Generational Responses to Germany’s Nazi Past in
Recent Women’s Literature, de Gruyter, Berlin…
…2008.
“Memory Matters” is a well-conceived and lucidly written study of a topic that continues
to garner much attention in public and academic discourses…
…of “Memory Matters” result from its two overarching organizational
principles and the often surprising correspondences and refreshing insights that…
…one of “Memory Matters” focuses on “Remembering Childhood in Nazi Germany”
and includes detailed textual analyses of Christa Wolf’s “Kindheitsmuster”…
…Matters” – and its double meaning as verb and as noun – refers to
both dimensions of these literary genealogies: to family documents, photographs, and other…
…historical ‘matter’ that the narrators uncover and to the ways in which the very processes of
remembering, forgetting, and imagining the past ‘matters‘ in…
…provide
helpful contextualization.
This minor quibble should not distract from the overall achievement of this impressive
study: “Memory Matters…
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