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Writing through Crisis: Time, History, Futurity in German Diaries of the Second World War
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017
- pp. 323-341
- 10.1353/bio.2017.0019
- Article
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This article considers how diary writing mediates temporal consciousness, especially during periods of crisis. Through examples of German civilian diaries written at the end of the Second World War, I show how diaries reflect changing notions of history and futurity, producing radically presentist modes of self-representation.