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Stone, Katherine (2016) Sympathy, empathy, and postmemory : problematic positions in Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter. Modern Language Review, 111 (2). pp. 454-477. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0454 ISSN 0026-7937.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0454
Abstract
Critics often discount the television mini-series Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (2013) as bad history, constructed around emotions rather than facts. This article argues, however, that emotional engagement does not necessarily inhibit critical engagement or moral reflection. My argument builds on an analysis of how the drama manipulates the sort of generational and gendered tropes that are central to Marianne Hirsch's theory of postmemory. Exemplifying the aesthetics of postmemory, the mini-series illuminates transformations in contemporary memory culture. It also raises questions overlooked by Hirsch about the ethical imperatives of postmemorial engagements with the history of the perpetrators.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama, Youth -- Germany -- Drama, Man-woman relationships -- Germany -- Drama | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Language Review | ||||||
| Publisher: | Modern Humanities Research Association | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0026-7937 | ||||||
| Official Date: | April 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 111 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 454-477 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0454 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 October 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 October 2018 |
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