Book Reviews by Karen Remmler
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Book review. History and Memory after Auschwitz. Dominick LaCapra
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1999
Karen Remmler - The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature (review) - Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21:1
Published Articles by Karen Remmler
Special Issue of German Quarterly
Papers by Karen Remmler
Studies in 20th & 21st century literature, 2007
How might we view the films by the Jewish Austrian filmmaker, Ruth Beckermann through the lens of... more How might we view the films by the Jewish Austrian filmmaker, Ruth Beckermann through the lens of the prose by the late German writer W.G. Sebald? The archival and, at the same time, haunting prose of Sebald's works such as The Emigrants or Austerlitz bears a close resemblance to the work of memory that Beckermann's films begs us to do. By focusing on particular spaces of remembrance in Beckermann's films in comparison to Sebald's similar practice of intermeshing historical and individual memories, this essay explores how the gendered construction of cultural memory takes place through transcultural encounters with those deemed as Other. Even as locations in Beckermann's films-a living room, the interior of a train passing through Vienna, a cold and sterile exhibit space, or a dream-like landscape-exist in reality, Beckermann's situating of memory in them, creates other, more compelling encounters between the living and the dead. The gendering of memory sites in Beckermann's films creates an alternative to the more elegiac images that are conjured in Sebald's textual and visual spaces of remembrance.
Carol Jacobs. Sebald's Vision. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 266 pp. ISBN: 978-0-231-17182-3
Germanic Review, Jan 2, 2017
Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944
... Abby Ferguson, Asha Strazzero Wild, Vidya Sampath, and Nancy Doherty provided creative and lo... more ... Abby Ferguson, Asha Strazzero Wild, Vidya Sampath, and Nancy Doherty provided creative and logistical support. Holger Teschke's creative vision helped shape the setting for the conversations of 2003. Christopher Benfey Karen Remmler Page 18. Page 19. ...
Teaching the Shoah in Context
Berghahn Books, Sep 1, 2000
9. En-gendering bodies of memory: tracing the genealogy of identity in the work of Esther Dischereit, Barbara Honigmann, and Irene Dische
New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
Waking the dead : correspondences between Walter Benjamin's Concept of remembrance and Ingeborg Bachmann's Ways of dying
Ingeborg Bachmann's late prose has often been read either as a representation of female exper... more Ingeborg Bachmann's late prose has often been read either as a representation of female experience in postwar Austria or as a commentary on the process of writing. This book offers a new reading by examining the relationship between historical experience and the structures of remembrance in Bachmann's Todesarten in the context of Walter Benjamin's approach to memory. Benjamin's notion of "insightful remembering" offers a conceptualization of remembrance that exposes the political, social, and psychological consequences of obscuring the ways in which public memory both shapes and is shaped by conflicting individual memories of the past. The differences between public and private forms of memory prevent their critical interchange and affects the ability to collectively mourn the victims of historical atrocities.
Gender Identities and the Remembrance of the Holocaust
Women in German yearbook, 1995
... Focusing on the relationship between structures of memory and the portrayal of female bodies,... more ... Focusing on the relationship between structures of memory and the portrayal of female bodies, the author analyzes Mali Fritz's account of her experiences as a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Essig gegen den Durst, and Marie Nurowska's novel Postscriptum fir Anna und Miriam ...
GDR bulletin, Oct 17, 1992
GDR bulletin, Oct 17, 1997
The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature, R. Clifton Spargo (Baltimore; London: John Hopkins University Press, 2004), 314 pp., cloth $49.95
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2007
... inconsolable grief joins a growing collection of texts, including Robert Pogue Harrison'... more ... inconsolable grief joins a growing collection of texts, including Robert Pogue Harrison's The Dominion of the Dead (2003) and Avishai Margalit's The Ethics ... Karen Remmler. Mount Holyoke College. kremmler{at}mtholyoke.edu. © Oxford University Press 2007; all rights reserved. ...
6. Deciphering the Body of Memory: Writing by Former East German Women Writers
New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
Residual Remembrance: Family Genealogies and the Return of the Dead
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 6, 2021
"On the Natural History of Destruction" and Cultural Memory: W. G. Sebald
German Politics and Society, Sep 1, 2005
Benjamin's well-known emblematic description of the rememberer as an archaeologist in... more Benjamin's well-known emblematic description of the rememberer as an archaeologist in "Excavation and Memory" is a fitting point of departure to explore the meaning, transmission, and form of cultural memory as a methodology and a subject in German studies. In this article, I explore the shift toward a renewed materiality of memory in fields such as archaeology and disaster studies that have been tangential to the discourses of cultural memory based on trauma and on identity politics prevalent in German cultural studies. After describing current practice in these fields and their relevance to the formation of cultural memory within the context of German studies, I then read the writing of W.G. Sebald within the framework of archaeological tropes in which the spaces dedicated to the dead play a major role. The close reading of Sebald's text serves as a model for re-reading other contemporary German literary texts within the broader context of other disciplinary approaches to the space of memory in the aftermath of atrocity.
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