Join us in congratulating Katra A. Byram on her latest book release.

Gender, Genre, and the Evolution of Memory: Insights from Postwar German Literature, 1945–2015 illuminates how genre links gender and memory by examining memoirs and novels about World War II-era mothers and grandmothers. As it does, it refutes the common generational account of postwar German memory culture.

Showing that 21^st-century family novels display features common in books about mothers from the 1950s forward, it contends that the change in public memory culture that took place in Germany around 2000 can be viewed as a gendered shift as much as a generational one. In the last twenty years, what was once seen as women’s memory has become German memory.

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