Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rupture and Repair: Marking the Legacy of the Second Generation
- Part I The Legacy of Survival
- 1 “A Tale Repeated Over and Over Again”: Polyidentity and Narrative Paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah Visible
- 2 “In Auschwitz We Didn't Wear Watches”: Marking Time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
- 3 “Because We Need Traces”: Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the Crisis of the Second-Generation Witness
- 4 Documenting Absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's “Arthur Mayer, or The Silence”
- Part II The Legacy of Perpetration
- Conclusion: The “Glass Wall”: Marked by an Invisible Divide
- Works Cited
- Index
2 - “In Auschwitz We Didn't Wear Watches”: Marking Time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
from Part I - The Legacy of Survival
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rupture and Repair: Marking the Legacy of the Second Generation
- Part I The Legacy of Survival
- 1 “A Tale Repeated Over and Over Again”: Polyidentity and Narrative Paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah Visible
- 2 “In Auschwitz We Didn't Wear Watches”: Marking Time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
- 3 “Because We Need Traces”: Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the Crisis of the Second-Generation Witness
- 4 Documenting Absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's “Arthur Mayer, or The Silence”
- Part II The Legacy of Perpetration
- Conclusion: The “Glass Wall”: Marked by an Invisible Divide
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Second-Generation Holocaust LiteratureLegacies of Survival and Perpetration, pp. 66 - 90Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006