Since Reunification in 1990, German literature has seen a boom in ‘family stories’: short and long-form prose works that explore what Anne Fuchs has termed the ‘agitated legacy’ of families' involvement in Nazism and their private memories of war and dictatorship. In this talk, Dr Alex Lloyd (University of Oxford, UK) examines two recent German graphic narratives that address family histories shaped by Nazism and the way the texts make use of the material traces that remain. No knowledge of German required.
This talk is part of the Oxford Comics Network Spring Seminar Series 2022. For more information, visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/comics. The seminar will be held online on Zoom. Registration is required. A link to join the seminars on Zoom will be sent out ahead of each event.
