Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-16

I - Self-Reflection in First- and Second-Generation Authors

pp 17-18

1 - What Is a German Jewish Author? Authorial Self-Fashioning in Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann

pp 19-37

2 - (Non-Jewish) German Constructions of (German) Jewish Writing in the Late Work of Günter Grass, Martin Walser, and Christa Wolf

pp 38-59

3 - Revenge, Restitution, Ressentiment: Edgar Hilsenrath's and Ruth Klüger's Late Writings as Holocaust Metatestimony

pp 60-80

II - Multiple Identities and Diversification of Holocaust Memory

pp 81-82

4 - The German Jewish Migrant Novel after 1990: Politics of Memory and Multidirectional Writing

pp 83-101

5 - 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

pp 102-122

6 - Memory without Borders? Migrant Identity and the Legacy of the Holocaust in Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt

pp 123-145

7 - Multilingualism and Jewishness in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther

pp 146-166

III - New Themes and Directions in Recent German Jewish Literature

pp 167-168

8 - Actuality and Historicity in Mirna Funk's Winternähe

pp 169-186

9 - German Psycho: The Language of Depression in Oliver Polak's Der jüdische Patient

pp 187-205

10 - Religion and the Holocaust: Imre Kertész, Benjamin Stein, and Kaddish for a Friend

pp 206-220

IV - Coda: Interviews with Two Contemporary German Jewish Writers

pp 221-222

11 - Interview with Olga Grjasnowa

pp 223-228

12 - Interview with Mirna Funk

pp 229-234

Bibliography

pp 235-252

Notes on the Contributors

pp 253-256

Index

pp 257-263