Victims and Perpetrators : (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: -- History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945 -- Transgenerational Memory -- Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature -- „Ein Fressen für mein MG": The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders -- Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe -- Air War and German Literature -- To Write or Remain Silent? The Portrayal of the Air War in German Literature -- The Language of Trauma: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air War -- Writing Dresden Across the Generations -- Jewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance -- Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmann's Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History -- A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara -- The „Different" Holocaust Memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches Viertel: Personal and Collective Remembrance Thematizing Perpetrator/Victim Relationships -- Transnational Reconciliation -- Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig -- Acknowledging Each Other As Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of Polish-German Reconciliation -- Attempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk -- Historical Consciousness and the German Present -- The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchilren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathers' Past -- The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers -- Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification.

Coming to Terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names.

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