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.
| ISBN: | 9781501367717 |
| Publication date: | 20th August 2020 |
| Author: | Prof Angelika Emory University, USA Bammer |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Psychoanalytic Horizons |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
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.
Born After features in the following genres: Literary theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Born After is available in Paperback, Hardback
Born After was written by Prof Angelika Emory University, USA Bammer and published by Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Born After has 304 pages
Yes it is part of Psychoanalytic Horizons series