Multidirectional Memory in “Daniel, der Gerechte” (1954): From Colonial Psychiatry to “Aktion T4”
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This article studies, through the concepts of ‘prememory’ and ‘multidirectional memory’, the aesthetic elements of the colonial context used to construct the fictional universe of Heinrich Böll's Daniel, der Gerechte (1954). This Kurzgeschichte, published shortly after the end of World War II, refers to the National Socialist euthanasia program “Aktion T4” and, to construct de plot, draws on concepts already present in the previous European colonial experience – such as trauma, psychiatry and the biologization of social.
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