Second-Generation Holocaust Literature - Legacies of Survival and Perpetration

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Erin Mcglothlin
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2006
• EAN: 9781571133526
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-352-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)