German Jewish Literature after 1990: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought

Agnes Mueller, Katja Garloff

Introduction - Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller PART I. SELF-REFLECTION in FIRST- and SECOND-GENERATION AUTHORS What 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 Taberner Revenge, Restitution, Ressentiment: Edgar Hilsenrath's and Ruth Klüger's Late Writings as Holocaust Metatestimony - Helen Finch PART II. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES and DIVERSIFICATION of HOLOCAUST MEMORY The German Jewish Migrant Novel after 1990: Politics of Memory and Multidirectional Writing - Jessica Ortner Beyond 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 Loentz Memory without Borders? Migrant Identity and the Legacy of the Holocaust in Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt - Jonathan Skolnik Multilingualism and Jewishness in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther - Andree Michaelis-König PART III. NEW THEMES and DIRECTIONS in RECENT GERMAN JEWISH LITERATURE Actuality and Historicity in Mirna Funk's Winternähe - Luisa Banki German Psycho: The Language of Depression in Oliver Polak's Der jüdische Patient - Caspar Battegay Religion and the Holocaust: Imre Kertész, Benjamin Stein, and Kaddish for a Friend - Agnes Mueller PART IV. CODA: INTERVIEWS with TWO CONTEMPORARY GERMAN JEWISH WRITERS Interview with Olga Grjasnowa - Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller Interview with Mirna Funk - Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index