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Der von Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas und Andrew Mycock herausgegebene Sammelband enthält 14 Beiträge namhafter Autoren aus den Bereichen der Geschichtswissenschaft, der Geschichtsphilosophie, der vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, sowie der Politologie. Sie alle widmen sich – aus jeweils unterschiedlichen Perspektiven – Erzählformen und Erzähltechniken von Nationalgeschichtsschreibung in einem Zeitraum, der vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in unsere Gegenwart reicht. Während die Beiträge im ersten Teil des Buches das Verhältnis zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und erzählender Geschichtsschreibung beleuchten, werden in den drei darauffolgenden Teilen nationale "Geschichtserzählungen" in Literatur, Film, bildender Kunst und Musik anhand konkreter Beispiele und Fragestellungen analysiert. Mit lediglich zwei Beträgen zu außereuropäischen Sichtweisen auf die "eigene Nationalgeschichte" untersucht der fünfte und letzte Teil nationale Geschichtskonstruktionen in den USA und Ostasien (Japan und Korea). ; Being the result of a conference on the shaping of national narratives at the University of Glamorgan in May 2004, this book relates to the relationship between nation and narration. 14 essays on the topic are written by authors rooted in different academic disciplines, ranging from History to Comparative Literature and Political Science. Beginning with three chapters on the relationship between scientific history writing and national narratives (part I), the following parts (II-IV) deal with the promotion of national narratives in the fields of literature, film, and the fine arts, including music, while covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Containing two essays on non-European perspectives of national history writing, the concluding part (V) focuses on North America and East Asia (Japan and Korea).

The concepts "man" and "animal," basic to the Western discourse of exclusion and discrimination, are examined in the context of literary works by authors who, like Gertrud Kolmar, Elias Canetti, Ilse Aichinger, and younger writers such as Rahel Hutmacher, experienced racial and/or gender-related discrimination. Drawing on recent feminist theory, this article shows that opposition to anthropomorphic attitudes in these authors' works implies a fundamental critique of the dominant paradigm of Western culture, which establishes man's superiority both in terms of species and of gender. Pertinent literary texts are explored from the point of view of contemporary feminist and animal-rights criticism, and parallels between these traditionally separate discourses are brought to light. The article also uncovers opposing cultural norms: Jewish and Christian, feminist and patriarchal, Nazi and humanist, anthropocentric and non-speciest. (DCGL)

Klüger's autobiography is a literary account of an Auschwitz survivor, an immigrant to the United States and a professor of German literature, weiter leben is also a metadiscourse on earlier accounts and studies of the Holocaust and the exile experience. Klüger's familiarity with international Holocaust literature and Fascism theory lends this very personal work, with its close-up descriptions of concentration camp life and insights into the experience of a Jewish woman scholar in contemporary Germany, a multi-dimensional, critical perspective and an unusual scope and depth. Klüger confronts the present with her own recollections and her generation's collective memory. (DCGL)

The article explores the situation, post-Holocaust Viennese society and rising anti-Semitism in Waldheim-Austria, and the background against which Schwaiger, an established mainstream Austrian author, writes the life history of Deutsch, a Holocaust survivor from Silesia whose native language is Yiddish. The relationship between interviewer and informant is analyzed as one of exploitation of a marginalized woman by a privileged one. Problems of ethics and authenticity are discussed and the question is raised whether Schwaiger exploits Deutsch for economic and ideological reasons, or whether the stereotypes and misrepresentations are the result of unnoticed cultural, intellectual, and linguistic barriers.