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"What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? A major and original contribution to thinking about and grappling with the legacies of German and Nazi history, this book reflects on the relationship between history and memory through the personal narrative of a postwar German intellectual. Arguing that the pasts that haunt us are shaped both by the things people did and suffered and the affective traces the past leaves in memory, Born After is a powerful meditation on questions of guilt, complicity, loss, and longing. With bracing honesty and without sentimentality, Bammer draws on her…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2020Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 304 pages · 9781501367717
- Other · English · 2019Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 304 pages · 9781501336423
- Other · English · 2019Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 9781501336430
- Other · English · 2019Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 304 pages · 9781501336447
MemoryGermany, history, philosophyFamilyGerman American womenBiographyDiplomatsFamily relationshipsNazis