Born After: Reckoning with the German Past by Bammer, Angelika

Born After: Reckoning with the German Past (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501336423)

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Format: Hardcover
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Born After: Reckoning with the German Past by Bammer, Angelika

Born After: Reckoning with the German Past

$160.00
Born After: Reckoning with the German Past by Bammer, Angelika

Born After: Reckoning with the German Past

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Angelika Bammer
ISBN-10: 1501336428
ISBN-13: 9781501336423
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2019
By Angelika Bammer
By Angelika Bammer
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Angelika Bammer is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s (revised edition, 2015; 1st edition, 1991), and the editor of The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions (2015) and Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question (1994).

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