Mary Cosgrove

Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.

Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature

Born Under Auschwitz

Anne Fuchs

Georg Grote

Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on the German past.

The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse Since 1990

German Memory Contests

The focus of this volume is the prose work of the Austrian-Jewish writer Albert Drach (1902-1995). The author explores Drach's critique of totalitarian culture by examining his representations of power and powerlessness, identity and difference, along with cultural processes of exclusion. Drawing on areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, the grotesque and post-colonial theory, this study identifies a significant discursive difference between Drach's shorter fictional prose and the Holocaust trilogy. Drach's highly original linguistic dexterity, his much-discussed 'protocol style', offers a sophisticated critique of the relationship between power, insubordination and capitulation. This is the first English language study dedicated to the complex prose of Albert Drach. It is of interest to students and scholars of Austrian literature, German-Jewish literature as well as Exile and Holocaust Studies.

Melancholy and Mourning in the Prose Work of Albert Drach

Grotesque Ambivalence

Anna Richards

Investigates the function and meaning of sadness in German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and culture from the 18th century to the present.

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