Language:
German
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Buchenwald
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 505-520
Keywords:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps in literature
;
English fiction History and criticism 21st century
Abstract:
The reception of German-speaking Buchenwald literature is dominated by the topic of resistance. However, there has been little attention paid to the question of to which extent prisoners in Buchenwald cooperated with the perpetrators. It is only in the last ten or twenty years that literary interest in the relationships between perpetrators and victims in Buchenwald has intensified - predominantly in literature written in English. This chapter analyses novels by Jenna Blum, Catherine Chidgey, Martin Goodman, Howard Jacobson, Ellen Keith and Bernice L. McFadden. It applies the theory of “agonistic memory” advanced by Anna Cento Bull and Hans Lauge Hansen, who do not see victims and perpetrators as absolute, mutually exclusive categories, emphasizing the necessity of incorporating victim and perpetrator perspectives into cultural memory work and setting them in relation to one another.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110770179-020
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