Legacies and ambiguities : postwar fiction and culture in West Germany and Japan / edited by Ernestine Schlant and J. Thomas Rimer.

Other author Schlant, Ernestine.
Other author Rimer, J. Thomas.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1991.
Descriptionx, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
German fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. --Congresses.
Japanese fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. --Congresses.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war. --Congresses.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature--Congresses.
Atomic bomb in literature--Congresses.

Contents West Germany as we know it : an episode? / Arnulf Baring-- The "long postwar" : Japan and Germany in common and in contrast / Carol Gluck -- The challenge of the past : turning points in the intellectual and literary reflections of West Germany, 1945-1985 / Walter Hinderer -- Post-World War II literature : the intellectual climate in Japan, 1945-1985 / Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit -- Literature under the occupation in Germany : memories of a contemporary / Peter Demetz -- Literary reorientation in occupied Japan : incidents of civil censorship / MarleneJ. Mayo -- The Japan Communist party and the debate over literary strategy under the Allied occupation of Japan / J. Victor Koschmann.
Contents Postoccupation literary movements and developments in West Germany / Judith Ryan -- Postoccupation literary movements and developments in Japan / Van C. Gessel -- Opening and closing the past in postwar German literature : time, guilt, memory, and the critics / Dagmar Barnouw -- Mechanisms of ideas : society, intellectuals, and literature in the postwar period in Japan / Katō Schūichi -- A writer in the present world : a Japanese case history / Oda Makoto -- German postwar strategies of coming to terms with the past / Peter Schneider.
General noteEvolved from a conference held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Sept. 16-19, 1988.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.
LCCN 91018654
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ISBN0943875323 (pbk.) :

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