"Flash scenes of my burning memory". On the narrative design of trauma and guilt in Thomas Lehr's novella spring Cover Image
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„blitzlichtszenen meiner brennenden erinnerung“. Zur narrativen Gestaltung von Trauma und Schuld in Thomas Lehrs Novelle Frühling
"Flash scenes of my burning memory". On the narrative design of trauma and guilt in Thomas Lehr's novella spring

Author(s): Claudia Benthien
Subject(s): Cultural history, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Holocaust; trauma; postmemory; Marianne Hirsch
Summary/Abstract: The book presents various aspects of literary representations of post-Holocaust trauma in texts of Polish and German literature. The phenomena of transgenerational memory transmission or – as Marianne Hirsh puts it – "postmemory" are an important element of the author’s reflections.

  • Page Range: 103-121
  • Page Count: 19
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Polish, German