Germany, Poland, and postmemorial relations : in search of a livable past / edited by Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation : Germany and Poland's Post-Memory after 1989 / Kristin Kopp and Joanna Nizynska -- Part I. The Politics of Postmemory -- Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989-2005) / Wanda Jarzabek -- History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland, 1956-1990 / Stefan Guth -- "The Law Alleviates Concerns" : Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation / Pawel Lutomski -- Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture / Heidi Hein-Kircher -- Part II. The Grand Narratives of Postmemory -- When Poland was Home : Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf / Angelika Bammer -- Declaring War : Attitudes Towards the Years 1939-1945 in the Literature of the Post-1990s / Przemyslaw Czaplinski -- Liberation from Memory : Memory, Post-Memory, or Subverted Memory in What Does the Messenger Girl Do by Foks & Libera / Marek Zaleski -- Interview with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009) / Jesse Labov and Jan T. Gross -- Genre and Intervention : Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear / Jessie Labov -- Relocating Auschwitz : Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika / Erica Lehrer -- The "Lodzermensch" : From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism / Winson W. Chu -- "We are Prussia Today" : Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State / Gregor Thum.