Contents

pp v-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of Storytelling

pp 1-10

Part I - Anna Seghers: A Missing Piece in the Canon of Modernist Storytellers

pp 11-12

1 - Anna Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years

pp 13-23

2 - Who Is the Narrator? Anna Seghers's “The Excursion of the Dead Girls”: Narrative Mode and Cinematic Depiction

pp 24-42

3 - Anna Seghers's Rubble Literature, 1947–49

pp 43-54

4 - Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic

pp 55-69

5 - Aufbauzeit or flaue Zeit? Anna Seghers's GDR Novels

pp 70-81

6 - The Time of Decision in Anna Seghers

pp 82-94

7 - Filling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers's Conceptual Metaphors

pp 95-108

Part II - Expressions of Modernity: Using Storytelling Unconventionally

pp 109-110

8 - Storytelling and Telling Stories in Heine's Prose Fiction

pp 111-121

9 - Modernist Haze: Topographical Textures in Paul Klee and Franz Kafka

pp 122-139

10 - Synthesis and Transtextuality: The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in “Shanghai Ghetto”

pp 140-151

11 - American Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools

pp 152-163

12 - A Literary Depiction of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945

pp 164-175

13 - Changed for the Better? Alternative Uses of the Transformative Cancer Trope in Thomas Mann's Die Betrogene and Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life

pp 176-186

Part III - The Personal Narrative: Storytelling in Acute Historical Moments

pp 187-188

14 - Problems and Effects of Autobiographical Storytelling: Als Pimpf in Polen: Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung 1940–1945 (1993) and A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis’ Program for Evacuating Children during World War II (1998)

pp 189-197

15 - Too Near, Too Far: My GDR Story

pp 198-208

16 - Conflict without Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred

pp 209-220

17 - “Bleibt noch ein Lied zu singen”: Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa Wolf's Novel Kindheitsmuster

pp 221-233

18 - Narrating germany's past: a story of exile and the return home—a translation of the chapter “above the lake” from ursula Krechel's Novel Landgericht

pp 234-251

19 - Storytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa Streiber-Aurich

pp 252-266

Notes on the Contributors

pp 267-270

Index

pp 271-280