Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reyes, Paul

Titel

Nora Krug: Reckoning With the Sins of a Nation

Ist Teil von

• The Virginia quarterly review, 2018-10, Vol.94 (3), p.12-15

Ort / Verlag

Charlottesville: Virginia Quarterly Review

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As a child of the 1980s, Nora Krug belongs to a generation that, while separated by decades from World War II and the Nazi regime, nonetheless inherited the sins of the Holocaust, a generation whose "paralyzing guilt," was ingrained through cultural and academic ritual. As an adult living abroad, Krug carried this historical burden with her, experiencing almost daily confrontation with her German identity through an accumulation of awkward introductions, awkward silences, taking pains to hide her accent and coping with the "familiar heat" of shame she felt whenever she considered herself in the context of others' judgment. Here, Reyes discusses Krug's exploration of his ancestral guilt.