Introduction: Confrontations with the Past
Melancholy Journeys to the Past: The Films of Ruth Beckermann
Reconstructing a Home: Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch's Haus der
Kindheit
Silencing the Past: Margarete Heinrich's and Eduard Erne's
Totschweigen and Elfriede Jelinek's Rechnitz (Der Wurgeengel)
Historicizing the Waldheim Affair: Robert Schindel's Der Kalte
Missing Images: Memorials and Memorial Projects in Contemporary
Vienna
Conclusion: Living with Shadows
Notes
Bibliography
Index
KATYA KRYLOVA is Lecturer in German, Film, and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen.
A fresh overview of the difficult legacy of Austria's WWII-past in
more recent works of literary and visual art and in the surge of
memorials in the urban space.
*JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES*
BR> Krylova's excellent and well-written study illuminates an
important historical, social, and cultural era in Austria for all
cultural studies students and scholars, while also motivating
scholars and teachers of Austrian culture to a greater engagement
with Austria's post-Holocaust legacy.
*STUDIES IN 20TH- AND 21ST-CENTURY LITERATURE*
[The book's] strengths [are] attention to historical detail
accompanied by careful explanations of the issues at stake that
will appeal to both experts and readers unfamiliar with the
particular Austrian context. . . . [O]ften succeeds at highlighting
quite compelling connections between . . . disparate works. . . .
[W]ill be of interest to teachers and scholars of Austria, memory
studies, and memorial culture.
*MONATSHEFTE*
Krylova masterfully handles [her] subject matter . . . . On
aesthetics, history, and politics after 1986, she appears to have
read everything. . . . [She] devotes [her] final chapter to
memorials and memorial projects . . . . A fascinating study of
these memorials, and post-Waldheim artistic engagement in Austria,
[this book] is also a tribute to the artists who continue to find
new ways to make the past an irritation to the present.
*AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK*
2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
*.*
Informative and readable, the book is of both scholarly and general
appeal.
*AUSTRIAN STUDIES*
Krylova's essays are thoroughly researched, lucidly written, and
should be of interest to students of cultural studies and
history.
*GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW*
Katya Krylova's excellent new book was completed between the
[Austrian] presidential and national polls [of 2016 and 2017]. . .
. Krylova's introduction gives an excellent overview of the diverse
strands of activity; her five chapters offer detailed analyses of
particular works. . . . Krylova is able to develop a fascinating
narrative.
*JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES*
[A] fascinating study . . . . [A] must read for all scholars
interested in Austrian literature, film, and culture.
*GEGENWARTSLITERATUR*
Timely.
*MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW*
Krylova's carefully researched The Long Shadow of the Past is a
must-read for Austrian memory study scholars. It captures
profoundly interconnected worlds of memory, trauma, and repression
of the past with politics, culture, history, and family histories;
it recognizes both progress and setbacks in Austria's reckoning
with its past; and it invites an open dialogue about cultural
memory.
*JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES*
Krylova has produced a timely, informative, engaging, and
well-written treatise on Austria's ongoing memory struggles. [It]
would be informative and digestible reading for students in a
course on the topic, and should be of interest to all scholars
concerned with how Austria and other nations confront the long
shadow of the past.
*GERMAN QUARTERLY*
Krylova's book is a timely and welcome addition to various fields
of study, among them, memory studies, Holocaust studies and
Austrian cultural studies. Krylova's analyses demonstrate what
happens when trauma and repressed national history continue
unresolved.
*THE INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR*
This is a well-considered study of Austrian Holocaust denial and
the ways in which film, literature, and memorial images have led
the nation toward a complete understanding of its share of guilt in
the events of WWII. . . . Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
Krylova skillfully weaves together the historical context with
pertinent case studies. . . . [C]omprehensive . . . a welcome
addition to academic and personal libraries. Krylova provides a
valuable resource for those unfamiliar with the political events
and the texts and at the same time points to directions for
fruitful future research.
*COLLOQUIA GERMANICA*
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