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dc.contributor.authorPötzsch, Holger
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-14T12:53:45Z
dc.date.available2013-01-14T12:53:45Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractSituating itself in the field of cultural memory studies, this article traces the slow emergence in German historical discourse of the narrative of an anonymous German woman who survived the Soviet occupation of Berlin in 1945. I will, firstly, conceptualize the historical condition of the Anonyma as a precarious liminal sphere of transition between competing sovereignties that dislodged her political status as citizen and reconstituted her as bare life in the sense of Agamben. Secondly, I direct focus to the relationship between the personal story of the Anonyma and a historical Master narrative pertaining to the period.  The article argues for a close connection between the woman’s form of resistance that aimed at replacing unchecked rape with a form of coerced prostitution to reassert limited control over the borders of her body, and the negative reception her diary received after a first publication in Germany in 1959. Her story implicitly challenges a hegemonic discourse of war that treats mass rape as mainly an assault on the nation’s male defenders and that silences the victims’ traumatic experiences with reference to collective guilt and individual shame or treason.en
dc.identifier.citationNordlit 30(2012) s. 17-33en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 948949
dc.identifier.issn0809-1668
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/4762
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4470
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Movie and drama: 170::Movie science: 171en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Film- og teatervitenskap: 170::Filmvitenskap: 171en
dc.subjectcultural memoryen
dc.subjectWorld War IIen
dc.subjecttraumaen
dc.subjectresistanceen
dc.titleRearticulating the experience of war in 'Eine Frau in Berlin'en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen
dc.typePeer revieweden


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