Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: A Generational Approach to German Culture Susanne Vees-Gulani and Laurel Cohen-Pfister

pp 1-24

Part 1 - Victim Legacies and Perpetrator Postmemory

pp 25-26

1 - Generations and German-Jewish Writing: Maxim Biller’s Representation of German-Jewish Love from “Harlem Holocaust” to Liebe heute

pp 27-55

2 - Between Reevaluation and Repetition: Ulla Hahn's UnscharfeBilder and the Lasting Influence of Family Conflicts about theNazi Past in Current Literature of the 1968 Generation

pp 56-76

3 - Beyond the Victims Debate: Flight and Expulsion in Recent Novels by Authors from the Second and Third Generation (Christoph Hein, Reinhard Jirgl, Kathrin Schmidt, and Tanja Dückers)

pp 77-94

4 - Fictionalizations: Holocaust Memory and the Generational Construct in the Works of Contemporary Women Writers

pp 95-114

5 - Play It Again, Traude: The Transgenerational Transfer ofWounds in Chris Kraus's Vier Minuten

pp 115-136

Part 2 - 1968 and German Terrorism

pp 137-138

6 - From Student Movement to the Generation of 1968: Generational Conflicts in German Novels from the 1970s and the 1990s

pp 139-160

7 - Ghostly Sisters: Feminist Legacies in Second-GenerationPerspectives on West German Terrorism; Judith Kuckart’sWahl der Waffen (1990) and Kaiserstraße (2006)

pp 161-183

8 - The Generation Gap: The Reappropriation of the Red Army Faction in Contemporary German Film

pp 184-204

Part 3 - East German Pasts

pp 205-206

9 - Post-Communist Fantasies: Generational Conflict in Eastern German Literature

pp 207-224

10 - From Father, from Son: Generational Perspectives in ChristophHein's Mama ist gegangen (2003) and Jakob Hein's Vielleichtist es sogar schön (2004)

pp 225-244

11 - No Questions Asked: Intergenerational Silence in Stasi VictimFamilies; Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem (2006)

pp 245-266

Part 4 - Globalized Identities

pp 267-268

12 - Transnationalism Meets Provincialism: Generations and Identifications in Faserland, Kurz und schmerzlos, and Selam Berlin

pp 269-286

13 - From Farbe bekennen to Schokoladenkind: GenerationalChange in Afro-German Autobiographies

pp 287-310

Notes on the Contributors

pp 311-314

Index

pp 315-326