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This book examines Siegfried Lenz' Deutschstunde (1968), Das Vorbild (1973) and Heimatmuseum (1978) and the Historikerstreit in West Germany. The analysis of retrospective narratives in Lenz' novels, a definitive literary statement on how a personal history is created, and the dialogue between the participants in the Historikerstreit links individual history with the public debate. Thus, parallels between retrospective narratives in fiction and narrative strategies in a professional exchange are exposed. Ultimately, this correlation establishes a powerful link between narrative structure, historical consciousness and ideology.

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Rachel J. Halvorsen is visiting lecturer in the Department of German at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. from Hamline University in St. Paul, Missesota. Durin g her academic year, she has studied frequently in West Germany. In 1986-87 academic year, she conducted research at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt, West Germany, as a recipient of a Germanistic Society of America Scholarship.

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