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Born After

Reckoning with the German Past

Av Angelika Bammer, Esther Rashkin

Del i serien Psychoanalytic Horizons

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A 2020 Prose Award FinalistWhat 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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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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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.

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