Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Rupture and Repair: Marking the Legacy of the Second Generation 1
5. Part I. The Legacy of Survival
6. 1: “A Tale Repeated Over and Over Again”: Polyidentity and Narrative Paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum’s Elijah Visible 43
7. 2: “In Auschwitz We Didn’t Wear Watches”: Marking Time in Art Spiegelman’s Maus 66
8. 3: “Because We Need Traces”: Robert Schindel’s Gebürtig and the Crisis of the Second-Generation Witness 91
9. 4: Documenting Absence in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens’s “Arthur Mayer, or The Silence” 125
10. Part II. The Legacy of Perpetration
11. 5: “Under a False Name”: Peter Schneider’s Vati and the Misnomer of Genre 143
12. 6: My Mother Wears a Hitler Mustache: Marking the Mother in Niklas Frank and Joshua Sobol’s Der Vater 174
13. 7: The Future of Väterliteratur: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders 199
14. Conclusion: The “Glass Wall”: Marked by an Invisible Divide 228
15. Works Cited 233
16. Index 247