Second-generation Holocaust literature : legacies of survival and perpetration / Erin McGlothlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGlothlin, Erin Heather.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Children of Holocaust survivors, Writings of.

Children of Nazis, Writings of.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006.

Summary:

Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.

Contents:

"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"

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-245) and index.

ISBN:

1571133526

OCLC:

69241507

Publisher Number:

9781571133526