Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce following
new publication in
German Studies:
Bombs Away!
Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan
Herausgegeben von Wilfried Wilms and William Rasch
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 404 pp. (Amsterdamer
Beiträge zur neueren
Germanistik 60)
ISBN: 90-420-1759-7 Bound € 82,-/$ 103.-
Online info:
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=ABNG+60
Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the
relative public
silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war
over Europe during
World War II, this collection of essays examines
literary, visual (film
and photography), and institutional (museums)
representations of the
bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany.
The authors
examine
narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively
little known
works
as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions
of the varied
representations of the depredations of total war. The
introduction and
afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand
the contours and
historical context of the debates about the German
public discourse on
the
bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators
and victims. The
volume will be of interest to literary scholars,
historians, and the
general reading public interested in warfare and its
effects on
civilian
populations.
Wilfried Wilms is Assistant Professor of German
Studies at University
of
Denver. He has published on the German Enlightenment
(G.E. Lessing) and
its reception, the debate surrounding W.G. Sebald and
Jörg Friedrich,
and
film. He is working on a book project entitled The
Bombing of Germany:
Taboo, Repression, and the Politics of Memory.
William Rasch is Professor and Chair of the Department
of Germanic
Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the
author of Niklas
Luhmann’s Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation
and Sovereignty
and
Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the
Structure of the
Political (German translation: Konflikt als Beruf: Die
Grenzen des
Politischen).
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