McGlothlin Second-Generation Holocaust Literature

Legacies of Survival and Perpetration
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57113-685-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 94, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGlothlin, Erin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rupture and Repair: Marking the Legacy of the Second Generation
"A Tale Repeated Over and Over Again": Polyidentity and Narrative Paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah Visible
"In Auschwitz We Didn't Wear Watches": Marking Time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
"Because We Need Traces": Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the Crisis of the Second-Generation Witness
Documenting Absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's "Arthur Mayer, or The Silence"
"Under a False Name": Peter Schneider's Vati and the Misnomer of Genre
My Mother Wears a Hitler Mustache: Marking the Mother in Niklas Frank and Joshua Sobol's Der Vater
The Future of Väterliteratur: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines BrudersAm Beispiel meines Bruders
Conclusion: The "Glass Wall": Marked by an Invisible Divide
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McGlothlin Erin:
Erin McGlothlin is assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis.