Notes on the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: A Generational Approach to German Culture 1
5. Part 1: Victim Legacies and Perpetrator Postmemory
6. 1: Generations and German-Jewish Writing: Maxim Biller’s Representation of German-Jewish Love from “Harlem Holocaust” to Liebe heute 27
7. 2: Between Reevaluation and Repetition: Ulla Hahn’s Unscharfe Bilder and the Lasting Influence of Family Conflicts about the Nazi Past in Current Literature of the 1968 Generation 56
8. 3: Beyond the Victims Debate: Flight and Expulsion in Recent Novels by Authors from the Second and Third Generation (Christoph Hein, Reinhard Jirgl, Kathrin Schmidt, and Tanja Dückers) 77
9. 4: Fictionalizations: Holocaust Memory and the Generational Construct in the Works of Contemporary Women Writers 95
10. 5: Play It Again, Traude: The Transgenerational Transfer of Wounds in Chris Kraus’s Vier Minuten 115
11. Part 2: 1968 and German Terrorism
12. 6: From Student Movement to the Generation of 1968: Generational Conflicts in German Novels from the 1970s and the 1990s 139
13. 7: Ghostly Sisters: Feminist Legacies in Second-Generation Perspectives on West German Terrorism; Judith Kuckart’s Wahl der Waffen (1990) and Kaiserstraße (2006) 161
14. 8: The Generation Gap: The Reappropriation of the Red Army Faction in Contemporary German Film 184
15. Part 3: East German Pasts
16. 9: Post-Communist Fantasies: Generational Conflict in Eastern German Literature 207
17. 10: From Father, from Son: Generational Perspectives in Christoph Hein’s Mama ist gegangen (2003) and Jakob Hein’s Vielleicht ist es sogar schön (2004) 225
18. 11: No Questions Asked: Intergenerational Silence in Stasi Victim Families; Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem (2006) 245
19. Part 4: Globalized Identities
20. 12: Transnationalism Meets Provincialism: Generations and Identifications in Faserland, Kurz und schmerzlos, and Selam Berlin 269
21. 13: From Farbe bekennen to Schokoladenkind: Generational Change in Afro-German Autobiographies 287
22. Notes on the Contributors 311
23. Index 315