Writing the Child: Fictions of Memory in German Postwar Literature (Paperback)

Contents: The War and Kriegskind Generations ? Kriegskinder Politics: Abiding Victimologies ? The Myth of Knowing Innocence: Dieter Forte’s Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen ? Performing Childhood: Gunter Grass’s Die Blechtrommel ? ≪The Disgrace of an Untimely Birth≫: Gisela Elsner’s Fliegeralarm ? The Kriegsenkel Generation ? ≪The past does not want to disappear≫: Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Der Verlorene ? ≪Lore≫, or the Implicated Subject: Rachel Seiffert’s Postmemory Work.