German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the

Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study provides a new reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Klger, emerge as exemplary in their contributions to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews.

Pascale R. Bos is Assistant Professor of Germanic and Netherlandic Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

Acknowledgments

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(20)

German-Jewish Literature as Address and ``Return''

3

(3)

Public Address/Personal Closure

6

(2)

Reading Against the Disputed German-Jewish Symbiosis

8

(3)

Analyzing Female Experience

11

(1)

Theoretical Intersections

12

(2)

Theorizing Holocaust Representation

14

(5)

Literary Interventions

19

(2)

The Jewish Return to Germany

21

(26)

Danach bin ich wieder Mensch: Weil's Return from Exile

21

(6)

Informationsverweigerung

27

(5)

Competing Memories

32

(5)

The (Futile) Search for Engagement

37

(5)

``Symptoms of German Amnesia''

42

(5)

Mythical Interventions

47

(24)

``Hitler's Children'': The Legacy of Silence in 1970s Germany

47

(1)

Antigone: Mythical Resistance Fighter or Terrorist?

48

(7)

Tactics of Evasion

55

(2)

Bridging the Generations

57

(3)

Changed Cultural Tides

60

(3)

Imagining Michal

63

(2)

Reconciling Jewish Identity: Bin ich Judischer geworden?

65

(4)

Finale

69

(2)

Creating Address

71

(18)

Ruth Kluger ``Returns'' to Germany

71

(2)

Unconventional Memories

73

(5)

A (German) Success Story?

78

(2)

Discursive Interventions

80

(1)

Reluctant Dialogue

81

(3)

Impossible Vienna

84

(1)

Reifying Discourse

85

(4)

Belated Interventions

89

(6)

Impossible Legacy, Impossible Dialogue

90

(1)

Assessing Change

91

(1)

Minor Literature

92

(1)

Survivors Speak

93

(2)

Notes

95

(30)

Works Cited

125

(10)

Index

135

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German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address

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