Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 179-199
Schlagwort(e):
Seghers, Anna, Criticism and interpretation
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Jewish women authors
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Kurzfassung:
This article investigates why the Holocaust did not resonate much in the work of the communist writer Anna Seghers (1900‒1983). While Seghers appeared during her Mexican exile to have been sensitive to news of the murder of European Jews, after her return to Germany her concern shifted to private matters. This shift was not only caused by political requirements to position oneself in the emerging Cold War or by traditional Marxist convictions regarding the historical mandate of the working class. Equally effective was a generational stamp, according to which Seghers had internalized the interpretive patterns of the interwar period based on rationality, meaningfulness, and optimism for the future in such a way that an event such as the Shoah would inevitably be suppressed if a last degree of affiliation with the communist movement was to be kept intact.
DOI:
10.13109/9783666317361.179
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