Austria 1945-1955
Distributed for University of Wales Press
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2. Narratives in Post-war Austrian Historiography Robert Knight
3. Doderer’s Habsburg Myth: History, the Novel and National Identity Andrew Barker
5. Remembering and Forgetting: Hilde Spiel’s Rückkehr nach Wien in 1946 Andrea Hammel
6. Giraffe unter Palmen: Saiko’s `Geschichten vom Mittelmeer’ Stuart Low
7. Eine sagenhaffe Figur (1946) , An Allegorical Novel of the Status Quo: The Re-emergence of Albert Paris Gütersloh at the End of the Second World War Jörg Thunecke
“This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the critical first ten years of Austria’s postwar history . . . readable, well documented and informative . . .There is much food for thought; some of it may even cause indigestion in Austria if, as one hopes, the book finds a wide readership there.” –Forum for Modern Language Studies
“These interestingly written and soundly investigated studies by British academics reveal that the question of Austrian identity meets with recognition and interest far beyond the Central European region (in which Austria plays a particularly important role).” –Aussenpolitik
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