Born After : Reckoning with the German Past Paperback / softback
by Prof Angelika (Emory University, USA) Bammer
Part of the Psychoanalytic Horizons series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:20/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781501367717
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:20/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501367717
