Writing the Child
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Susanne Baackmann is Associate Professor of German at the University of New Mexico. Informed by having lived and worked in two cultures and languages, her research is focused on issues of gender, memory and trauma in the context of German-speaking cultures. Previous book publications explore how contemporary women authors have rewritten narratives of love and desire and how gender inflects narratives about violence and war. She has published widely on memory and postmemory in recent literature, films, photography and art. In her teaching she focuses on contemporary German culture, as well as fairy tales, notions of Heimat and memory studies.
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Contents: The War and Kriegskind Generations - Kriegskinder Politics: Abiding Victimologies - The Myth of Knowing Innocence: Dieter Forte's Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen - Performing Childhood: Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel - «The Disgrace of an Untimely Birth»: Gisela Elsner's Fliegeralarm - The Kriegsenkel Generation - «The past does not want to disappear»: Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene - «Lore», or the Implicated Subject: Rachel Seiffert's Postmemory Work.
