In this Book
- The Inability to Love: Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
summary
The Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society’s lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller’s aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that s ideologically and historically fraught.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-16
- 1. Absence: Guilt and Shame
- pp. 17-46
- 3. Masculinities and the Body
- pp. 77-106
- 4. Jews and Germans in America
- pp. 107-134
- Bibliography
- pp. 163-174
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810168114
Related ISBN(s)
9780810130173, 9780810134379
MARC Record
OCLC
898226985
Pages
186
Launched on MUSE
2014-12-17
Language
English
Open Access
No