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- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Book Title
- Born After: Reckoning with the German Past (Psychoanalytic Horiz
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781501336423
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Psychology, History
- Publication Name
- Born after : Reckoning with the German Past
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Comparative Literature, Movements / Psychoanalysis, European / German, Europe / Germany, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Psychoanalytic Horizons Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 17.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1501336428
ISBN-13
9781501336423
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038383430
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Born after : Reckoning with the German Past
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Comparative Literature, Movements / Psychoanalysis, European / German, Europe / Germany, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Psychology, History
Series
Psychoanalytic Horizons Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2019-007347
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A courageous, self-reflexive and conscientious book. It is an intimate account of her personal life story but at the same time it is a story of a generation of Germans born into the shattered and perplexed reality of 'aftermath' Germany who were forced to struggle with the haunting shadows of the past ... Bammer is a gifted narrator and her personal story is both intimately touching and intellectually evoking ... Bammer compels us to rethink the very foundations of identity: memory, personal history, attachment to place, culture and, above all - language. It brings together historical research (letters, family documents, interviews, etc.) with contemplative and reflective observations, reminding us of the blurred distinction between facts and representation, historiography and literature, memory and imagination ... Its embedded psychological and historical insights which are marked by a rare clarity and sensitivity ... stem from a genuine understanding of the human psyche that goes beyond the somewhat schematic and abstractive nature of theories ... Nonetheless, the most significant contribution of the book lies in its ability to raise questions without aspiring to answer them, and in its achievement in sharpening the paradoxes and dilemmas embedded not only in relation to the history of Nazi and post-war Germany but in relation to history and memory as such., Important and in many ways original contribution to this vast body of work concerned with Holocaust memory from the perspective of a perpetrator culture...What makes Bammer's accounting remarkable among other things is the huge time span of her engagement with her family history. Her personal narrative begins well before she was born in 1945 and stretches beyond the death of her father in 2009. Instead of narrating one single revelation concerning her family's implication with Nazi violence, as has been done in so many popular novels and films, Bammer tells about her recurrent, labored, and often frustrating efforts of trying to understand not only the actions of her parents and grandparents but maybe even more important their changing emotions and silences vis-à-vis their country's horrific past., In this brave and acutely perceptive book, Angelika Bammer confronts the legacy of a dark past without shirking the difficult ambiguities of denial, guilt, anger, or attachment carried by its inheritors. Moving between personal story and larger history, Born After gives us felt insight into the paradoxes of transmitted memory and the dilemmas faced by the second generation on both sides of atrocity., "[ Born After ] is a powerful meditation on love and death, guilt and atonement, and memory and imagination, as well as a recognition of reason and its limitations when confronting history's brutal realities. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through faculty." - CHOICE "Important and in many ways original contribution to this vast body of work concerned with Holocaust memory from the perspective of a perpetrator culture...What makes Bammer's accounting remarkable among other things is the huge time span of her engagement with her family history. Her personal narrative begins well before she was born in 1945 and stretches beyond the death of her father in 2009. Instead of narrating one single revelation concerning her family's implication with Nazi violence, as has been done in so many popular novels and films, Bammer tells about her recurrent, labored, and often frustrating efforts of trying to understand not only the actions of her parents and grandparents but maybe even more important their changing emotions and silences vis-à-vis their country's horrific past." - H-Judaic " Born After is a painfully honest and mesmerizing reflection on what it means to have been born a German in the wake of the Holocaust. An elegant writer, Angelika Bammer is unafraid to probe deeply into areas where others--including many Germans--have refused to go. She weaves together history and family, the past and the present, and literature and psychoanalytic analysis in a seamless and eminently readable fashion. I have waited for this book for a long time and when I received it I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down. And I shall return to it often." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Emory University, USA, and author of Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019) "In this brave and acutely perceptive book, Angelika Bammer confronts the legacy of a dark past without shirking the difficult ambiguities of denial, guilt, anger, or attachment carried by its inheritors. Moving between personal story and larger history, Born After gives us felt insight into the paradoxes of transmitted memory and the dilemmas faced by the second generation on both sides of atrocity." -- Eva Hoffman, author of After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2014) and Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe (1993) "Readers of Born After will be grateful to Angelika Bammer for the invitation to join in the intimacy of her life-long memory work. This is a courageous, wise, and quietly devastating book in which the past can shift at a moment's notice, while the future remains open to surprises large and small." -- Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012)., [ Born After ] is a powerful meditation on love and death, guilt and atonement, and memory and imagination, as well as a recognition of reason and its limitations when confronting history's brutal realities. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through faculty., " Born After is a painfully honest and mesmerizing reflection on what it means to have been born a German in the wake of the Holocaust. An elegant writer, Angelika Bammer is unafraid to probe deeply into areas where others--including many Germans--have refused to go. She weaves together history and family, the past and the present, and literature and psychoanalytic analysis in a seamless and eminently readable fashion. I have waited for this book for a long time and when I received it I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down. And I shall return to it often." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Emory University, USA, and author of Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019) "In this brave and acutely perceptive book, Angelika Bammer confronts the legacy of a dark past without shirking the difficult ambiguities of denial, guilt, anger, or attachment carried by its inheritors. Moving between personal story and larger history, Born After gives us felt insight into the paradoxes of transmitted memory and the dilemmas faced by the second generation on both sides of atrocity." -- Eva Hoffman, writer, scholar, public intellectual, and author of After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2014) and Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe (1993) "Readers of Born After will be grateful to Angelika Bammer for the invitation to join in the intimacy of her life-long memory work. This is a courageous, wise, and quietly devastating book in which the past can shift at a moment's notice, while the future remains open to surprises large and small." -- Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012)., Engaged in what was clearly a difficult - sometimes agonising - task, Bammer has produced a beautiful and important book ... 5 stars., Readers of Born After will be grateful to Angelika Bammer for the invitation to join in the intimacy of her life-long memory work. This is a courageous, wise, and quietly devastating book in which the past can shift at a moment's notice, while the future remains open to surprises large and small., " Born After is a painfully honest and mesmerizing reflection on what it means to have been born a German in the wake of the Holocaust. An elegant writer, Angelika Bammer is unafraid to probe deeply into areas where others--including many Germans--have refused to go. She weaves together history and family, the past and the present, and literature and psychoanalytic analysis in a seamless and eminently readable fashion. I have waited for this book for a long time and when I received it I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down. And I shall return to it often." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Emory University, USA, and author of Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019) "In this brave and acutely perceptive book, Angelika Bammer confronts the legacy of a dark past without shirking the difficult ambiguities of denial, guilt, anger, or attachment carried by its inheritors. Moving between personal story and larger history, Born After gives us felt insight into the paradoxes of transmitted memory and the dilemmas faced by the second generation on both sides of atrocity." -- Eva Hoffman, author of After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2014) and Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe (1993) "Readers of Born After will be grateful to Angelika Bammer for the invitation to join in the intimacy of her life-long memory work. This is a courageous, wise, and quietly devastating book in which the past can shift at a moment's notice, while the future remains open to surprises large and small." -- Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012)., Born After is a painfully honest and mesmerizing reflection on what it means to have been born a German in the wake of the Holocaust. An elegant writer, Angelika Bammer is unafraid to probe deeply into areas where others--including many Germans--have refused to go. She weaves together history and family, the past and the present, and literature and psychoanalytic analysis in a seamless and eminently readable fashion. I have waited for this book for a long time and when I received it I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down. And I shall return to it often., "Important and in many ways original contribution to this vast body of work concerned with Holocaust memory from the perspective of a perpetrator culture...What makes Bammer's accounting remarkable among other things is the huge time span of her engagement with her family history. Her personal narrative begins well before she was born in 1945 and stretches beyond the death of her father in 2009. Instead of narrating one single revelation concerning her family's implication with Nazi violence, as has been done in so many popular novels and films, Bammer tells about her recurrent, labored, and often frustrating efforts of trying to understand not only the actions of her parents and grandparents but maybe even more important their changing emotions and silences vis-à-vis their country's horrific past." - H-Judaic " Born After is a painfully honest and mesmerizing reflection on what it means to have been born a German in the wake of the Holocaust. An elegant writer, Angelika Bammer is unafraid to probe deeply into areas where others--including many Germans--have refused to go. She weaves together history and family, the past and the present, and literature and psychoanalytic analysis in a seamless and eminently readable fashion. I have waited for this book for a long time and when I received it I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down. And I shall return to it often." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Emory University, USA, and author of Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019) "In this brave and acutely perceptive book, Angelika Bammer confronts the legacy of a dark past without shirking the difficult ambiguities of denial, guilt, anger, or attachment carried by its inheritors. Moving between personal story and larger history, Born After gives us felt insight into the paradoxes of transmitted memory and the dilemmas faced by the second generation on both sides of atrocity." -- Eva Hoffman, author of After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2014) and Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe (1993) "Readers of Born After will be grateful to Angelika Bammer for the invitation to join in the intimacy of her life-long memory work. This is a courageous, wise, and quietly devastating book in which the past can shift at a moment's notice, while the future remains open to surprises large and small." -- Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012).
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
943
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
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