Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria after 1945: The Inner Side of Mourning (Germanic Literatures)

This long overdue study explores the significance of the comical in German and Austrian postwar cultural representations of suffering. It analyses how the comical challenges the expectations and ethics of representing suffering and trauma.

• | Author: Stephanie Bird
• | Publisher: Legenda
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 190966295X
• | ISBN-13: 9781909662957