Article: Waste matters: defilement and postfascist discourse in works by Franz Fuhmann.(Critical Essay)

Germany's reunification marked the end of a century characterized by violence and totalitarian power. With the collapse of Socialism in 1989, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) state and the Third Reich receded further into the past. In this process, Nazism and genocide were not erased from the national imagination, as some had feared, but alternative ways of thinking about the making of the German postwar nation began to emerge. No longer focused on the Holocaust, critics have proposed histories that cast the events of the last century in terms of a continuous shifting between catastrophe and civility. (1) These approaches underscore the representations and experiences ...

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