Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introductory Considerations
5. Introduction 3
6. Hard-Cold-Fast: Imagining Masculinity in the German Academy, Literature, and the Media 13
7. Theoretical Considerations to the Problematic of Postwar German Masculine Identity
8. An Interview with Tilmann Moser on Trauma, Therapeutic Technique, and the Constitution of Masculinity in the Sons of the National Socialist Generation 45
9. Paralysis, Silence, and the Unknown SS-Father: A Therapeutic Case Study on the Return of the Third Reich in Psychotherapy 63
10. The German-Jewish Hyphen: Conjunct, Disjunct or Adjunct? 91
11. Masculinity and Sexual Abuse in Postwar German Society 105
12. Reading Masculinity in Postwar German Literature
13. The Motif of the Man, Who, Although He Loves, Goes to War: On the History of the Construction of Masculinity in the European Tradition 133
14. “I have only you, Cassandra”: Antifeminism and the Reconstruction of Patriarchy in the Early Postwar Works of Hans Erich Nossack 171
15. Brutal Heroes, Human Marionettes, and Men with Bitter Knowledge: On the New Formulation of Masculinity in the Literature of the “Young Generation” after 1945 (W. Borchert, H. Bo¨ ll, and A. Andersch) 191
16. Väterliteratur, Masculinity, and History: The Melancholic Texts of the 1980s 219
17. Homosexual Images of Masculinity in German-Language Literature after 1945 243
18. Neo-Nazi or Neo-Man? The Possibilities for the Transformation of Masculine Identity in Kafka and Hasselbach 263
19. Multiple Masculinities in Turkish-German Men’s Writings 289
20. Afterword 313
21. Contributors 319
22. Index 323