Physical Description
viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
"A tale repeated over and over again" : polyidentity and narrative paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah visible
"In Auschwitz we didn't wear watches" : marking time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
"Because we need traces" : Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the crisis of the second-generation witness
Documenting absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's "Arthur Mayer, or, The silence"
"Under a false name" : Peter Schneider's Vati and the misnomer of genre
My mother wears a Hitler mustache : marking the mother in Niklas Frank and Joshua Sobol's Der Vater
The future of Väterliteratur : Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders
Conclusion : the "glass wall" : marked by an invisible divide.
ISBN
1571133526
9781571133526
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
"A tale repeated over and over again" : polyidentity and narrative paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah visible -- "In Auschwitz we didn't wear watches" : marking time in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- "Because we need traces" : Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the crisis of the second-generation witness -- Documenting absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's "Arthur Mayer, or, The silence" -- "Under a false name" : Peter Schneider's Vati and the misnomer of genre -- My mother wears a Hitler mustache : marking the mother in Niklas Frank and Joshua Sobol's Der Vater -- The future of Väterliteratur : Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders -- Conclusion : the "glass wall" : marked by an invisible divide.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
