Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 W. G. Sebald and German Wartime Suffering
- 2 The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings
- 3 Expulsion Novels of the 1950s: More than Meets the Eye?
- 4 “In this prison of the guard room”: Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939–1945 in the Context of Contemporary Debates
- 5 Family, Heritage, and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm
- 6 Lost Heimat in Generational Novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath
- 7 “A Different Family Story”: German Wartime Suffering in Women's Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun
- 8 The Place of German Wartime Suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Family Texts
- 9 “Why only now?”: The Representation of German Wartime Suffering as a “Memory Taboo” in Günter Grass's Novella
- 10 Rereading Der Vorleser, Remembering the Perpetrator
- 11 Narrating German Suffering in the Shadow of Holocaust Victimology: W. G. Sebald, Contemporary Trauma Theory, and Dieter Forte's Air Raids Epic
- 12 Günter Grass's Account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer?
- 13 Jackboots and Jeans: The Private and the Political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders
- 14 Memory-Work in Recent German Novels: What (if Any) Limits Remain on Empathy with the “German Experience” of the Second World War?
- 15 “Secondary Suffering” and Victimhood: The “Other” of German Identity in Bernhard Schlink's “Die Beschneidung” and Maxim Biller's “Harlem Holocaust”
- Works Cited
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 W. G. Sebald and German Wartime Suffering
- 2 The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings
- 3 Expulsion Novels of the 1950s: More than Meets the Eye?
- 4 “In this prison of the guard room”: Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939–1945 in the Context of Contemporary Debates
- 5 Family, Heritage, and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm
- 6 Lost Heimat in Generational Novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath
- 7 “A Different Family Story”: German Wartime Suffering in Women's Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun
- 8 The Place of German Wartime Suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Family Texts
- 9 “Why only now?”: The Representation of German Wartime Suffering as a “Memory Taboo” in Günter Grass's Novella
- 10 Rereading Der Vorleser, Remembering the Perpetrator
- 11 Narrating German Suffering in the Shadow of Holocaust Victimology: W. G. Sebald, Contemporary Trauma Theory, and Dieter Forte's Air Raids Epic
- 12 Günter Grass's Account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer?
- 13 Jackboots and Jeans: The Private and the Political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders
- 14 Memory-Work in Recent German Novels: What (if Any) Limits Remain on Empathy with the “German Experience” of the Second World War?
- 15 “Secondary Suffering” and Victimhood: The “Other” of German Identity in Bernhard Schlink's “Die Beschneidung” and Maxim Biller's “Harlem Holocaust”
- Works Cited
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009