The Suffering of the Perpetrators: Unleashing Collective Memory in German Literature of the Twenty-First Century

Cohen-Pfister, Laurel

doi:10.1093/fmls/cqi006

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The Suffering of the Perpetrators: Unleashing Collective Memory in German Literature of the Twenty-First Century

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The article examines recent texts in the Federal Republic of Germany which revisit the memory of German wartime suffering. “Working through the past” enters the complexity of memory where victim and perpetrator are not exclusive, but rather concurrent identities. The convergence of intense production and reception of these memory texts denotes a collective shift in thinking in official cultural memory towards validating the experience of German suffering that has been perpetuated in collective memory.

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