German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity

by Del Caro, Adrian; Ward, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780870815614
• ISBN10: 087081561X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xv
Section I: Cultural Philosophy and Ideologies of Identity	1	(62)
Ecological Ethos and Reactionary Politics: The Political Implications of Heidegger's Philosophy of Being	3	(8)
Walter H. Sokel
The Great War and the Holocaust	11	(9)
Robert A. Pois
Thinking the Nietzsche Legacy Today: A Historian's Perspective	20	(12)
Steven E. Aschheim
Anti-Semitism and the Judiciary in the Federal Republic of Germany	32	(9)
Rainer Hering
Germans and Jews Since 1945: The Politics of Absolution, Amends, and Ambivalence	41	(11)
William Safran
The Decline and Fall of the German Mandarins: Intellectuals and Post-Reunification Germany	52	(11)
Thomas A. Hollweck
Section II: Post-Holocaust Identity Debates	63	(48)
Afro-Germans: The Invisible Visible Germans	65	(11)
Susann Samples
Else Lasker-Schuler: The ``Small Drama'' of Subjectivity	76	(8)
Silvia Henke
Some Thoughts on the Tenuous and Precarious Relationship Between Feminism and German Studies	84	(9)
Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres
Germans and Jews After the Fall of the Wall: The Promises and Problems of Hybridity	93	(10)
Todd Herzog
Challenging the Status Quo: Michael Wolffsohn's Views on German-Jewish-Israeli Relations	103	(8)
Andreas Michel
Section III: Poetry and Images After Auschwitz	111	(48)
Paul Celan and the German of the Non-German	113	(9)
Adrian Del Caro
Uncanny Holograms of the Past: Recent German Poetry and Writing After Paul Celan and Theodor Adorno	122	(9)
Erk Grimm
Claiming the Victim: Tokenism, Mourning, and the Future of German Holocaust Poetry	131	(9)
Kathrin Bower
Hans-Jurgen Syberberg and the State of the Ghost	140	(8)
Robert Shandley
Restaging Riefenstahl: The Lure of Nazi Iconography	148	(11)
Janet Ward
Section IV: Sites of Meta-German Multiplicity	159	(63)
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Norwegian Literature	161	(8)
Ann Schmiesing
One Language-Two Literatures Again? Swiss Literature Since the Wende	169	(7)
Martin R. Dean
``Not Everything Written in the German Language is German Literature'': Austrian Literature---A Special Case?	176	(10)
Karlheinz Auckenthaler
The Role of Literature in German Studies Programs (1945-1995): A Canadian Case Study	186	(9)
Kari Grimstad
Literature as Peace Research: Re-Vision in Henrich von Kleist and Christa Wolf	195	(11)
Jean Wilson
Working on German memory: Peter Weiss and Uwe Johnson	206	(8)
Alexander Honold
Anaesthetics: The Shoah in Contemporary Jewish Literature	214	(8)
Thomas Nolden
Bibliography	222	(17)
List of Contributors	239