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The War in the Empty Air

The War in the Empty Air Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans

Hardback (15 Jan 2006)

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Publisher's Synopsis

W. G. Sebald offer evidence that these submerged memories are surfacing. Taking account of these developments, Barnouw examines this debate about the validity and importance of German memories of war and the events that have occasioned it. Steering her path between the notions of âvictimâ and âperpetrator,â Barnouw seeks a place where acknowledgment of both the horror of Auschwitz and the suffering of the non-Jewish Germans can, together, create a more complete historical remembrance for postwar generations. Dagmar Barnouw is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, and author of Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity, Germany 1945, and Naipaul's Strangers (all Indiana University Press), among other books of cultural criticism.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253346513
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 940.53072043
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 303
Weight: 585g
Height: 238mm
Width: 164mm
Spine width: 28mm