Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvNed Curthoys,Australia) Curthoys, Dr. Ned (University of Western Australia

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The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence. It examines the Bildungsroman as a flourishing intermedial genre encompassing contemporary historical fiction, historical feature films, and children’s and YA literature. Analysing a number of highly influential novels and films about the Holocaust and World War II (WWII), the book argues that the narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman, which includes a swerve away from ‘home’ and its parochialism and moral certainties, has contributed to shaping audience perceptions of traumatic histories and their ethical implications in the twenty-first century. The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age examines some of the most keenly discussed, and controversial historical fictions of recent decades including The Remains of the Day (1989), The Kindly Ones (2006, English trans. 2009), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), and Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic Hannah Arendt (2012). It argues that in portraying a protagonist who defers or refuses a prescribed social destiny, these novels and films are sensitive to the ‘Eichmann problematic’ of the ‘banality of evil’ as formulated by Hannah Arendt. These Bildungsromane, the study suggests, are designed to address the problem of the social reproduction of normative, unimaginative, and conformist mindsets that can enable totalitarian politics and genocidal policies.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-21
Mått148 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt240 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765103883

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Acknowledgments1. Memory as reinvention in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day2. Visionary disenchantment: Accessing second sight in The Kindly Ones3. An exemplary Bildungsheld: Bringing diaspora home in Daniel Stein Interpreter4. Unofficial education and the promotion of active readership in two Holocaust themed novels for children: Hitler’s Daughter and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas5. The Counterfeiters as Bildungsfilm: Allegorizing Jewish history6. A protagonist for dark times: Repurposing memory and the future of civil courage in Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic Hannah Arendt ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age brings fresh and insightful approaches to contemporary fictional and cinematic texts, combining astute close readings alongside a range of theoretical prisms. Revisited as a highly mobile, fluid, multifaceted genre, the Bildungsroman – in adult and children’s fiction alike – is persuasively showcased as a pedagogical “off-piste” roadmap to equip readers, including fledgling future citizens, with the wherewithal to challenge the reductive rigidity of homogenizing dominant hegemonies. This book regards Bildung as vital questing counter-narratives of cosmopolitan “ethical awakening” that seek to dismantle patriarchy’s stranglehold on historical, religiocultural and familialmatrices, and remap the trajectory of humanity’s formation.

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