Jan Lensen is an affiliated researcher at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie of the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of De foute oorlog: Schuld en nederlaag in het Vlaamse proza over de Tweede Wereldoorlog (2014) and has widely published about contemporary Dutch and German literature and cultural memory in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Dutch Literature, Comparative Literature and Modern Language Review.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsThe Generation of Meta-Memory: An IntroductionPart I – Of Perpetrators and VictimsChapter 1 – ‘Ein verwandter Ton’: The (Im)possibility of German Victimhood in Marcel Beyer’s Flughunde (1995)Chapter 2 – ‘In Search of a More Bearable Tomb’: Narrative Integration and Heteroglossia in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)Chapter 3 – The Comfort Corner of Victimhood: Holocaust Victimhood in Arnon Grunberg’s De joodse messias (2004)Part II – Memory on the Move?Chapter 4 – The Names of the Dead in Our Communal Cemeteries: The Case for a European Collective Memory in Koen Peeters’s Grote Europese roman (2007)Chapter 5 – Claiming Memory Citizenship in Mano Bouzamour’s De belofte van Pisa (2014)Chapter 6 – Moving in and out of the Feedback Loop: History and ‘Globital’ Memory in Peter Verhelst’s Zwerm (2005)Part III – The Play with MemoryChapter 7 – ‘Irgendwo zwischen Müllverbrennungsanlage und dem bleistiftförmigen Fallturm der Universität’: Personal Memory and Autofiction in Per Leo’s Flut und Boden (2014)Chapter 8 – ‘Wir stören uns nicht daran’: Stylistic Refinement and the Play with Referentiality in Kevin Vennemann’s Nahe Jedenew (2005)Chapter 9 – ‘With a stretched arm. Like Superman, not like Hitler’: Irreverent Play with Memory in Astronaut van Oranje (2013) by Andy Fierens and Michaël BrijsAfterword: A Move out of the Grip of the Past?Index

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