The Inability to Love: Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature
Northwestern University Press, 2015
Paper: 978-0-8101-3437-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6811-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3017-3
Library of Congress Classification PT149.J4M84 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 830.93529924
Paper: 978-0-8101-3437-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6811-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3017-3
Library of Congress Classification PT149.J4M84 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 830.93529924
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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