The Long Shadow of the Past - 9781640140738

The Long Shadow of the PastContemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture\nAuthor(s): Katya Krylova\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640140738, 978-1640140738\nSynopsis\nExamines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for what they reveal about the country's contemporary politics of memory.\n\n2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title\n\nThe process of coming to terms with its National Socialist past has been a long and difficult one in Austria. It is only over the past thirty years that the country's view of its role during the Third Reich has shifted decisively from that of victimhood to complicity, prompted by the Waldheim affair of [tel]. Austria's writers, filmmakers, and artists have been at the center of this process, holding upa mirror to the country's present and drawing attention to a still disturbing past.\n Katya Krylova's book under.