German Jewish Literature after 1990

HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds. JESSICA ORTNER is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark. STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

• Introduction - Katja Garloff and Agnes MuellerPART I. SELF-REFLECTION in FIRST- and SECOND-GENERATION AUTHORSWhat Is a German Jewish Author? Authorial Self-Fashioning in Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann - Katja Garloff(Non-Jewish) German Constructions of (German) Jewish Writing in the Late Work of Günter Grass, Martin Walser, and Christa Wolf - Stuart TabernerRevenge, Restitution, Ressentiment: Edgar Hilsenrath's and Ruth Klüger's Late Writings as Holocaust Metatestimony - Helen FinchPART II. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES and DIVERSIFICATION of HOLOCAUST MEMORYThe German Jewish Migrant Novel after 1990: Politics of Memory and Multidirectional Writing - Jessica OrtnerBeyond Negative Symbiosis: The Displacement of Holocaust Trauma and Memory in Alina Bronksy's Scherbenpark and Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt - Elizabeth LoentzMemory without Borders? Migrant Identity and the Legacy of the Holocaust in Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt - Jonathan SkolnikMultilingualism and Jewishness in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther - Andree Michaelis-KönigPART III. NEW THEMES and DIRECTIONS in RECENT GERMAN JEWISH LITERATUREActuality and Historicity in Mirna Funk's Winternähe - Luisa BankiGerman Psycho: The Language of Depression in Oliver Polak's Der jüdische Patient - Caspar BattegayReligion and the Holocaust: Imre Kertész, Benjamin Stein, and Kaddish for a Friend - Agnes MuellerPART IV. CODA: INTERVIEWS with TWO CONTEMPORARY GERMAN JEWISH WRITERSInterview with Olga Grjasnowa - Katja Garloff and Agnes MuellerInterview with Mirna Funk - Katja Garloff and Agnes MuellerBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

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