Descript |
viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
The legacy of survival -- "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" -- The legacy of perpetration -- "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 Bruders -- Conclusion: The "Glass wall": Marked by an invisible divide. |
ISBN |
1571133526 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781571133526 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
EAN |
9781571133526 |
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