Is the Past a Secret Language? The Jewish Other and the Holocaust in Iurii Vynnychuk’s Novel Tango of Death

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. After Memory: Introduction 1
4. Growing in the Cracks: On Ecologies of the Margins 21
5. I Imaginary Adoptions: Family Histories and Personal Legacies
6. Bodies of Evidence: Memory, the Forensic Imagination and Family Histories about former Yugoslavia 32
7. Transnational Aspects of Postmemory in Third-Generation Fiction: The ‘Contrapuntal’ Cases of Piotr Paziński and Erwin Mortier 61
8. Ghost-Writing World War II Memories: Romanian Holocaust Survivors’ Life Stories in Post-Cold War Western Societies 83
9. Legacies of Stalinism and the Gulag: Manifestations of Trauma and Post Memory 111
10. II Revisionist Appropriations: National Belongings and Collective Identities
11. Is the Past a Secret Language? The Jewish Other and the Holocaust in Iurii Vynnychuk’s Novel Tango of Death 132
12. Post-Imperial Resentments: Alternative Histories of World War II in Popular Post-Soviet Speculative Fiction 171
13. Chetniks and Partisans: Conflicting Narratives in Contemporary Serbian Literature 197
14. Delectatio Morosa: Reflections on Affective Compensation, Conflation, and Fantasy in Polish Memory Culture 219
15. III Fictional Interventions: Alternate Narratives and Subverted Mythologies
16. ‘Spectral Stories’: Fictional Re-Inventions of the Holocaust in Contemporary Polish Literature 248
17. Counterfactuals and (Counter)memory: Im/possible Modes of ‘Undoing’ the Great Patriotic War 265
18. The ‘Gift of Memory’ and the ‘Gift of Oblivion’: Holocaust and World War II in Contemporary Hungarian Literature 277
19. De-Mythologising History: On the Fictional and Phantasmatic Dismantling of the Leningrad Blockade Narrative 303
20. IV Imaginative Reconfigurations: Average Heroes and Ambivalent Subjectivities
21. Digging up Skulls, Fighting with Words: On Radka Denemarková’s Novel Money from Hitler 334
22. Layers of the Crypt: Baltic Women’s Postmemory of World War II in Life Stories and Fiction 361
23. Bridging the Gaps: The Poetics of Postmemory in the Czech Graphic Novel Alois Nebel 409
24. Obsessed with the Past: On the Topicality of the Historical Novel in Eastern Europe Today 429
25. Appendix
26. Acknowledgments 457
27. Notes on Contributors 459
28. Index 465