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From: "Wilms, Wilfried" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:59 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] CFP - special issue on air war
CFP - Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik (special issue on air war)
Proposals are invited for contributions to a volume of essays on the air war in Europe from
1937-1945. Historical essays that place the European air war in historical context - e.g. strategic
bombing during WWI, warfare against colonial possessions during the interwar years, the bombing war
against Japan, etc - are welcome, but our main interest is in critical studies on literary or
cinematic representations of and reflections on the bombing war conducted by and/or against Germany
during the Second World War. We wish to move beyond moral and political arguments about who should
and should not be presented as victims (as elicited, for instance, by the publication of Jörg
Friedrich's Der Brand). Although we recognize that representations and narratives are often, if not
always, morally and politically inflected, we also assume as normal that all people be able to tell
their stories, no matter who the people or what the stories are. Therefore, we are looking for
studies that directly deal with representations (in, for instance, novels, poetry, paintings,
memorials, photographs, films) of the bombing war, its effects (on aircrews or victims in Spain,
Poland, the Netherlands, England, Germany, or elsewhere), its efficacy, and the efforts to remember
or efface the memory of its effects after the war. We are also interested in examinations of why
such representations may be rare or lacking in certain national literary traditions (for instance,
the post-war German literary tradition, as claimed by Sebald).
Possible topics include:
German literature on air war (Nossack; Ledig; Kluge; et.al.)
American/British/Dutch/French/ Polish/Russian/Spanish etc. literature on air war
Air war & film
Public memory and memorials
The distinction between memory & history
Air war & international law
Taboo & repression (psychological and/or social)
The role of photography (as means of warfare and as representation of warfare's effects)
Narrative form and leitmotifs
Language and style
Please e-mail abstracts of c. 200 words to both the editors by 1 June 2004:
Prof William Rasch
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Indiana University
Prof. Wilfried Wilms
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Union College, NY
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