German Memory Contests – The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Introduction: Germany's Memory Contests and the Management of the Past - Mary Cosgrove and Anne Fuchs What Exactly Is Vergangenheitsbewältigung? Narrative and Its Insufficiency in Postwar Germany - Peter Fritzsche The Tinderbox of Memory: Generation and Masculinity in Väterliteratur by Cristoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Dagmar Leupold, and Ulla HahnDagmar Leupold, and Ulla Hahn - Anne Fuchs Telling It How It Wasn't: Familial Allegories of Wish-Fulfillment in Postunification Germany - Elizabeth Boa Being Translated: Exile, Childhood, and Multilingualism in G.-A. Goldschmidt and W. G. Sebald - Stefan Willer "Ein Stück langweiliger als die Wehrmachtsausstellung, aber dafür repräsentativer": The Exhibition Fotofeldpost as Riposte to the "Wehrmacht Exhibition"Exhibition" - Chloe Paver German Crossroads: Visions of the Past in German Cinema after Reunification - Matthias Fiedler Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe: Photography, Narrative, and the Claims of Postmemory - Jonathan Long Imagined Identities: Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors in Literature - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz Of Stories and Histories: Golem Figures in Post-1989 German and Austrian Culture - Cathy Gelbin Multi-Ethnicity and Cultural Identity: Afro-German Women Writers' Struggle for Identity in Post-Unification GermanyGermany - Jennifer E. Michaels The Anxiety of German Influence: Affiliation, Rejection, and Jewish Identity in W. G. Sebald's Work - Mary Cosgrove Between "Restauration" and "Nierentisch": The 1950s in Ludwig Harig, F. C. Delius, and Thomas Hettche - Andrew Plowman On Forgetting and Remembering: The New Right since German Unification - Roger Woods