Nationale Helden und jüdische Opfer

Hallama, Peter

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“… 2. For the Holocaust in Czech post-war culture see Hallama (2015); for the Holocaust in Czech literature see Holý (2012); for literary texts dealing with the expulsion of the Germans see Zand and Holý (2004). …”

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Postcatastrophic entanglement? Contemporary Czech writers remember the holocaust and post-war ethnic cleansing

Tippner

2021

Memory Studies

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The last two decades have seen a rising interest in the Holocaust and the expulsion of ethnic Germans after World War II in Czech literature. Novels by Hana Androníková, Radka Denemarková, Magdalena Platzová, Kateřina Tučková, and Jáchym Topol share a quest for a new poetics of remembrance. Informed by contemporary discussions about Czech memory politics, these novels are characterised by spectral visions of Germans and Jews alike, a dichotomy of trauma and nostalgia, and an understanding of Czech history as postcatastrophically entangled and thus calling for multidirectional forms of remembrance. In this respect, literary memorial forms compensate for the absence of other memorial forms addressing these topics through a transnational lens. The interaction of different historical points of view is achieved by a time frame extending from the war to the present day and stressing the intercultural dynamics of Czechs, Jews, and Germans retroactively. In order to illustrate this entanglement, authors make use of popular genres, such as romance, and create texts shaped by genre fluidity, memory theory, documentary practices, and concepts of transnationality.

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