Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond

JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019). HUNTER BIVENS is Associate Professor of Literature and German Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019). MARC SILBERMAN is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin. STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of Storytelling - Kristy R. Boney and Jennifer Marston WilliamPART I. ANNA SEGHERS: A MISSING PIECE IN THE CANON OF MODERNIST STORYTELLERSAnna Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years - Christiane Zehl RomeroWho Is the Narrator? Anna Seghers's "The Excursion of the Dead Girls": Narrative Mode and Cinematic Depiction - Peter BeickenAnna Seghers's Rubble Literature, 1947-49 - Ute BrandesAnna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic - Stephen BrockmannAufbauzeit or flaue Zeit? Anna Seghers's GDR Novels - Hunter BivensThe Time of Decision in Anna Seghers - Benjamin RobinsonFilling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers's Conceptual Metaphors - Jennifer Marston WilliamPART II. EXPRESSIONS OF MODERNITY: USING STORYTELLING UNCONVENTIONALLYStorytelling and Telling Stories in Heine's Prose Fiction - Robert C. HolubModernist Haze: Topographical Textures in Paul Klee and Franz Kafka - Kristy R. BoneySynthesis and Transtextuality: The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in "Shanghai Ghetto" - Weijia LiAmerican Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools - Elizabeth LoentzA Literary Depiction of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945 - Michaela PeroutkovaChanged for the Better? Alternative Uses of the Transformative Cancer Trope in Thomas Mann's Die Betrogene and Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life - Kristen HetrickPART III. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE: STORYTELLING IN ACUTE HISTORICAL MOMENTSProblems and Effects of Autobiographical Storytelling: Als Pimpf in Polen: Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung 1940-1945 (1993) and A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children during World War II (1998) - Jost HermandToo Near, Too Far: My GDR Story - Marc SilbermanConflict without Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred - Andy Spencer"Bleibt noch ein Lied zu singen": Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa Wolf's Novel Kindheitsmuster - Luke SpringmanNarrating Germany's Past: A Story of Exile and the Return Home-A Translation of the Chapter "Above the Lake" from Ursula Krechel's Novel Landgericht - Amy Kepple StrawserStorytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa Streiber-Aurich - Sylvia FischerNotes on the Contributors