Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture

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Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture

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edited by Dora Osborne

Contributor

• Osborne, Dora

Editor

• Osborne, Dora

Subject

• Collective memory -- Germany -- History
• German literature -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material found there, or the system that orders this material; in its broadest sense, it might refer to something public (records housed in a municipal building), or something private (photographs in afamily album). The material and documentary qualities of the archive confer on it an authenticating function attributed only cautiously to memory, but theories of the archive have questioned the status of material, documentary vestiges of the past. Memory and the archive are inextricably linked, but how does this affect the mediation of the past? This volume explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Contributions approach this topic from a range of perspectives (film, visual culture, urban culture, digital technology, as well as literature) and offer illuminating studies of Harun Farocki, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas Demand, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jürgen Fuchs, Stefan Wolter, and Sasa Stanisic. Contributors: Priyanka Basu, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Regine Criser, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Diana Hitzke and Charlton Payne, Caitríona Leahy, Dora Osborne, Annie Ring, Lizzie Stewart, Simon Ward. Dora Osborne is Lecturer in German at Durham University.--

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• Edinburgh German yearbook, v. 9

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Provided by publisher

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Edinburgh German yearbook
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

volume 9