Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781501367717 |
| ISBN10: | 1501367714 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 304 pages |
| Size: | 215x139 mm |
| Weight: | 349 g |
| Language: | English |
| 290 |
Category:
Born After
Reckoning with the German Past
Series:
Psychoanalytic Horizons;
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 20 August 2020
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Long description:
A 2020 Prose Award Finalist
What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? A major and original contribution to thinking about and grappling with the legacies of German and Nazi history, this book reflects on the relationship between history and memory through the personal narrative of a postwar German intellectual. Arguing that the pasts that haunt usare shaped both by the things people did and suffered and the affective traces the past leaves in memory, Born After is a powerful meditation on questions of guilt, complicity, loss, and longing. With bracing honesty and without sentimentality, Bammer draws on her own family story to think anew about a history that we have come to accept as familiar. Inflecting questions about history with questions about ethics, her book speaks to all those concerned with historical pasts that remain unreconciled.
What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? A major and original contribution to thinking about and grappling with the legacies of German and Nazi history, this book reflects on the relationship between history and memory through the personal narrative of a postwar German intellectual. Arguing that the pasts that haunt usare shaped both by the things people did and suffered and the affective traces the past leaves in memory, Born After is a powerful meditation on questions of guilt, complicity, loss, and longing. With bracing honesty and without sentimentality, Bammer draws on her own family story to think anew about a history that we have come to accept as familiar. Inflecting questions about history with questions about ethics, her book speaks to all those concerned with historical pasts that remain unreconciled.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: Swastika Raincoat
Part One: The Trouble with German
In the Aftermath
Lost in the Past
Following the Clues
Family Ties
Between the Word-Gaps
Ambushed by History
Passing through Bitburg
Resident Alien
Proof of Ancestry
Part Two: Walking to Buchenwald
Into the Past
Walking to Buchenwald
The Quiet Dignity of Being True
Once Upon a Wartime
A World in Letters
Part Three: There Was a Butcher Here, Once
A Longing Called Home
Memories of War
Memories of Betrayal
There Was a Butcher Here, Once
My Nazi Family
Sources and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Part One: The Trouble with German
In the Aftermath
Lost in the Past
Following the Clues
Family Ties
Between the Word-Gaps
Ambushed by History
Passing through Bitburg
Resident Alien
Proof of Ancestry
Part Two: Walking to Buchenwald
Into the Past
Walking to Buchenwald
The Quiet Dignity of Being True
Once Upon a Wartime
A World in Letters
Part Three: There Was a Butcher Here, Once
A Longing Called Home
Memories of War
Memories of Betrayal
There Was a Butcher Here, Once
My Nazi Family
Sources and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
