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German Postmemory and Ambivalent Home Desires: A Critical Reading of Nora Krug's (2018) Graphic Novel 'Heimat: A German Family Album'
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Reviewed workKrug, Nora: Heimat: a German family album. London: Particular Books 2018. 978-0-241-18356-4
Abstract This review analyses the aesthetic engagement with Nazi atrocities during WWII and belonging in post-war Germany as presented in Nora Krug's graphic novel Heimat: A German Family Album. The authors employ Marianne Hirsch's concept of 'postmemory' as an analytical tool that helps them locate the comp... view more
This review analyses the aesthetic engagement with Nazi atrocities during WWII and belonging in post-war Germany as presented in Nora Krug's graphic novel Heimat: A German Family Album. The authors employ Marianne Hirsch's concept of 'postmemory' as an analytical tool that helps them locate the complex historical and emotional contexts from which this graphic novel receives its impulses. The concrete scenes from the novel are presented and subsequently related to the field of memory and postmemory scholarship. Wider critical debates on how aesthetic articulations of past atrocities influence the next generations of 'victims' and 'perpetrators' are examined, to ask: What does it mean to inhabit memories of ghostly narratives about perpetrators and how does it form a feeling of post-home?... view less
Classification
History
Free Keywords
Heimat; belonging; post-home; postmemory
Document language
German
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 196-212
Journal
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 21 (2019) 1
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed