Description: In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age...
Brief description: Anne Fuchs is Professor and Director of the UCD Humanities Institute, Ireland. Prominent research areas: German cultural memory, modernist and contemporary literature, time and temporality. She is the author of After the Dresden Bombing, Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse, Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte. Recent edited volumes: with J.J. Long, Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900-2015.
Review Quotes:
Anne Fuchs brilliant analysis shifts between careful close readings of texts and images and insightful linkages to key thinkers. The result is a highly readable and fiercely intelligent book.
-- "Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies"