German culture and the uncomfortable past : representations of national socialism in contemporary Germanic literature / edited by Helmut Schmitz.

Includes bibliographical references.

Literary portrayals of National Socialism in post-unification German literature / Bill Niven -- Views of history, views of the state : Günter Grass and the German past / Julian Preece -- "Deutsche Geschichte darf auch einmal gutgehen" : Martin Walser, Auschwitz, and the "German Question" from Ehen in Philippsburg to Ein springender Brunnen / Stuart Taberner -- "Das korsakowsche Syndrom" : remembrance and responsibility in W.G. Sebald / Arthur Williams -- "Die Ungnade der späten Geburt?" : the theme of National Socialism in recent novels by Bernhard Schlink and Klaus Modick / Stuart Parkes -- Elisabeth Reichart's Nachtmär - The enduring nightmare of Austria in the 1990s / Juliet Wigmore -- Soundscapes of the Third Reich : Marcel Beyer's Flughunde / Helmut Schmitz -- Of death, kitsch, and melancholia / Anna M. Parkinson -- Journey to an unknown destination : Gudrun Pausewang's transgressive teenage novel Reise im August / Susan Tebbutt.