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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 115–134.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Susanne Luhmann Literary and cinematic representations of private and familial histories of Nazi perpetration, collaboration, and support have proliferated since reunification. Three recent German documentary films each turn the lens on the filmmaker and his family in an effort to grapple publicly...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 137–153.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by, and mirrored in, developments in German literature, specifically in the family novel. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 postmodern post-Holocaust Marcel Beyer Doron Rabinovici belatedness Beyond Lateness? “Postmemory” and the Late(st) German-Language Family Novel...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 107–132.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Barbara N. Nagel The attention that the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser pays to domestic violence can be regarded as exceptional. So why does child abuse still remain a blind spot in the scholarship on Walser? This article discerns techniques that Walser uses to render family violence...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of recognition in its equality. The significance of Antigone's burial ritual is to be seen in light of Hegel's relationship with his sister, Christiane. The ritual elevates the harmony between the two sexes not found in the family or civil society. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 This content...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 33–54.
Published: 01 February 2014
... environment in a decrepit Jewish town in eastern Europe but left it behind to travel to Berlin and dedicate his life to philosophy in the tradition of the German enlightenment. Scholem (1897–1982), born a century and a half later to a middle-class acculturated Jewish family in Berlin, left it behind...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Traudl Junge, and the families of Nazi perpetrators. Drawing on theories of shame developed by Emmanuel Lévinas (1935) and Ruth Leys (2007), it demonstrates how these films perform a move away from guilt in the juridical or moral sense and toward shame as an exposure of the psychological and emotional...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
Published: 01 August 2018
... represent a unique response to this little-known history of early cinema. Focusing on “Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor,” “The Bucket Rider,” and “The Cares of a Family Man,” this article shows how Kafka’s stories draw, reflect, and expand on the possibilities of contemporaneous trick films by introducing...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 147–185.
Published: 01 February 2010
... Virgins engages with the trope of female bodily display and sexual agency as the normative signs of democratic relations in Europe. The pitting of a liberated, democratic (European) sexuality against the sexually repressed, authoritarian (Muslim) family reactivates the antifascist rhetoric of the sexual...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 87–107.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Amy Walsh This article traces the unusual story of a non-Western work of art stolen from a Polish noble, rather than Jewish, family during the German occupation. It illustrates the range of Nazi looting and the necessity of scrutinizing the provenance of every object, not only paintings. The story...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 121–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
... humanitarian rea- sons (“humani­täres Bleiberecht4 went into effect, and the family was to be forcibly removed from Austrian territory. In the intervening five years, how- ever, both parents had found gainful employment, and Arigona Zogaj, like her siblings, had been learning German and attending school...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2011
..., on the historical side of the equation, is a focus on collective, familial, or individual memories of specific catastrophic events occurring within Germany or Ger- man-occupied territories between 1939 and 1989. A second focus is on how memory is constructed, preserved, circulated, redirected, framed...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
... pace and in a chronologically disjointed manner, the story of two families living in a Berlin apartment house in 1942: the Jewish- German Silberstein family and the non-Jewish mother Marianne Meissner, who lives with her son, Heinrich. The Silbersteins are called up for deportation...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 95–112.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Diagonale Film Festi- val in that same year, is based on the eponymous novel by the Austrian writer Josef Haslinger.14 It links three family stories: that of Jewish victims of the Shoah, that of a perpetrator, and that of an Austrian family whose social milieu Haslinger paints quite precisely...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 197–215.
Published: 01 February 2020
... and landscapes are the focus of Maja Haderlap’s autofictional novel Engel des Vergessens . 1 The landscape of southern Carinthia, home to the autochthonous Slovenian group, serves as the backdrop to the novel. While focusing on the life story of three generations of one Slovenian family, the novel depicts...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 11–34.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in northeastern France and focuses on the Balland family, the couple Alain and Nicole and their two children with the Americanized names Kid and Kelly. The daughter, Kelly, suddenly disappears during the festival; it becomes clear that she has run away with her boyfriend of Algerian descent and Muslim faith...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 61–79.
Published: 01 November 2012
... aim therefore to write an unconventional “hybrid” history, of interest to both scholars and a general audience, that connects family history and the use of an extensive personal archive of letters, photographs, and other memorabilia (most of it stored, unread and uncataloged, in a basement...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2019
... members of the same family, inhabitants of a single village. Only, as it happens, the idiot village is America” (47). In subjecting them to her gaze, and in fashioning herself as the articulator of their awkwardness, Arbus avoids engaging with her many sitters’ relative distinctiveness; they do not seem...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 159–178.
Published: 01 February 2006
...: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 197. 5. Adorno was one of the most Kantian members of the Frankfurt School perhaps as a result of his early indoctrination when he was only fifteen years old to reading Kant’s first critique with Siegfried Kracauer, a family friend fourteen years his senior. Adorno...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 75–98.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of Desire in Oskar Roehler’s Postromance Films Marco Abel Der Film [Agnes und seine Brüder] soll zeigen, daß unsere Gesellschaft und ihre Keimzelle, die Familie, trotz guten Willens einfach...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 1–9.
Published: 01 August 2012
... in the controversies about the expellees, the air war, the Wall dead, and the Stasi not only created a victim discourse but also drew attention to the transgenerational power of personal biography and family history. There was no escaping the multiple arenas in which these memory con- tests played out...