Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and JapanSUNY Press, 1 sty 1998 - 345 The wartime and postwar cultural histories of Germany and Japan show similar experiences of defeat, occupation, and then the reconstruction of powerful societies. Little previous research has examined the literary works that reflect these contacts and parallelisms. For the first time, this book offers an extensive comparative study of German and Japanese narratives that serve as a form of "counter-memory," in Foucault's phrase, for the two cultures. Rather than attempting to present objective or comprehensive views of history, these narratives draw upon personal memories to offer subjective, selective, and individualistic reports. They provide an alternative (or "counter-memory") to more official versions of World War II and its aftermath. Major writers such as Mishima Yukio, Ibuse Masuji, Oba Minako, Gunter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, and the Nobel Prize winners Oe Kenzaburo and Heinrich Boll are set in the context of lesser-known writers, including a nine-year-old child, a medical doctor, a woman who served as a journalist, and a former prisoner, to provide a broad cultural basis for understanding responses to the war from within the two societies. This book combines a broad historical scope with detailed examinations of important individual texts, with both aspects securely set on a firm foundation of historical and literary scholarship. The rhythm of alternation between synthetic generalizations and close textual explication (yielding interpretive insights while providing lucid and economical exposition and summary) allows for carefully balanced and integrated comparisons. |
Spis treści
Introduction Contexts for a HalfCentury of Remembering | 1 |
Historical and Literary Contexts | 2 |
Critical Contexts | 12 |
Lines of Convergence and Difference | 17 |
Evoking the Ruins The Recreation of Immediacy | 27 |
Genbaku Bungaku in Japan | 33 |
Ōta Yōko and Hara Tamiki | 39 |
Ōoka Shōhei | 74 |
Ibuse Masujis Black Rain | 164 |
Synopsis | 177 |
Expansion in Time and Place | 181 |
Uwe Johnsons Anniversaries | 185 |
Ōba Minakos Urashimasō | 197 |
Christa Wolfs Cassandra | 222 |
Ōes Trial | 233 |
Synopsis | 246 |
Wiechert and Borchert | 83 |
Triimmerliteratur and Beyond | 92 |
Synopsis | 113 |
The Achievement of a Distanced Perspective | 119 |
Mishima and Boll | 121 |
Grasss Tin Drum and Ōes My Tears | 145 |
The End of the Line | 249 |
Notes | 265 |
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Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany ... Reiko Tachibana Ograniczony podgląd - 1998 |
Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany ... Reiko Tachibana Ograniczony podgląd - 1998 |
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