Belonging : a German reckons with history and home
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Author
Published
New York : Scribner, 2018.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Status
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 KRUG 2018
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813.6 KRUG 2018
1 available
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Americans -- Germany -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographies
Collective memory -- Germany -- Comic books, strips, etc.
German Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Krug, Nora -- Comic books, strips, etc.
National socialism -- Psychological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographies
Collective memory -- Germany -- Comic books, strips, etc.
German Americans -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Krug, Nora -- Comic books, strips, etc.
National socialism -- Psychological aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Chiefly illustrations.
Description
A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her familys wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Yet Nora knew little about her own familys involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. In her late thirties, after twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didnt dare to as a child and young adult. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her fathers brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier in Italy. Her extraordinary quest, spanning continents and generations, pieces together her familys troubling story and reflects on what it means to be a German of her generation. Belonging wrestles with the idea of Heimat, the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next. In this highly inventive visual memoirequal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrativeNora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong to ones country and ones family. A wholly original record of a German womans struggle with the weight of catastrophic history, Belonging is also a reflection on the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countries pasts.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Krug, N. (2018). Belonging: a German reckons with history and home (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Krug, Nora. 2018. Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Krug, Nora. Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home Scribner, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Krug, Nora. Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2018.
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