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Herta Müller ed. by Brigid B. Haines and Lyn L. Marven (review)

Herta Müller ed. by Brigid B. Haines and Lyn L. Marven (review) Book Reviews ist fur die Spanierin Siguan daher von besonderem Interesse, da auch sie gegen das ¨ Vergessen anschreibt, um an die antifaschistische Geschichte Spaniens zu erinnern. Dieses personliche Engagement charakterisiert ihr Buch, das den vertrauten ¨ Holocaust-Diskurs um die mutigen Lebensgeschichten weniger bekannter Antifaschisten und Widerstandskampfer erweitert. Der rote Faden von Siguans Darstellung ¨ ist die poetologische Frage, wie das Unsagbare der Verbrechen und Leiden des 20. Jahrhunderts in den Erzahlungen dieser Autoren dennoch sagbar wurde. ¨ University of Wisconsin­Madison --Klaus Berghahn Herta Muller. ¨ Edited by Brigid B. Haines and Lyn L. Marven. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 272 pages + 2 b/w illustrations. $80.00. Conceived as a critical companion to Muller's works, this volume features thirteen ¨ essays organized into three main groupings: explorations of Muller's poetics and the ¨ Romanian background; individual readings of Muller's main prose texts and volumes ¨ of collages; and a section that ranges from analyses of gender and life-writing in Muller's works to the author's worldwide reception through the media and the me¨ dium of translation. Haines and Marven's "Introduction" offers a helpful and engaging overview of Muller's life and works, an excellent commentary on the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Monatshefte University of Wisconsin Press

Herta Müller ed. by Brigid B. Haines and Lyn L. Marven (review)

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Monatshefte , Volume 108 (1) – Mar 15, 2016
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Book Reviews ist fur die Spanierin Siguan daher von besonderem Interesse, da auch sie gegen das ¨ Vergessen anschreibt, um an die antifaschistische Geschichte Spaniens zu erinnern. Dieses personliche Engagement charakterisiert ihr Buch, das den vertrauten ¨ Holocaust-Diskurs um die mutigen Lebensgeschichten weniger bekannter Antifaschisten und Widerstandskampfer erweitert. Der rote Faden von Siguans Darstellung ¨ ist die poetologische Frage, wie das Unsagbare der Verbrechen und Leiden des 20. Jahrhunderts in den Erzahlungen dieser Autoren dennoch sagbar wurde. ¨ University of Wisconsin­Madison --Klaus Berghahn Herta Muller. ¨ Edited by Brigid B. Haines and Lyn L. Marven. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 272 pages + 2 b/w illustrations. $80.00. Conceived as a critical companion to Muller's works, this volume features thirteen ¨ essays organized into three main groupings: explorations of Muller's poetics and the ¨ Romanian background; individual readings of Muller's main prose texts and volumes ¨ of collages; and a section that ranges from analyses of gender and life-writing in Muller's works to the author's worldwide reception through the media and the me¨ dium of translation. Haines and Marven's "Introduction" offers a helpful and engaging overview of Muller's life and works, an excellent commentary on the

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