The legacy of survival
"A tale repeated over and over again": Polyidentity and narrative paralysis in Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah visible
"In Auschwitz we didn't wear watches": Marking time in Art Spiegelman's Maus
"Because we need traces": Robert Schindel's Gebürtig and the crisis of the second-generation witness
Documenting absence in Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder and Katja Behrens's "Arthur Mayer or the silence"
The legacy of perpetration
"Under a false name": Peter Schneider's Vati and the misnomer of genre
My mother wears a Hitler mustache: Marking the mother in Niklas Frank and Joshua Sobol's Der Vater
The future of Väterliteratur: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders
Conclusion: The "Glass wall": Marked by an invisible divide.
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Second-generation Holocaust literature : legacies of survival and perpetration by Erin Heather McGlothlin. ISBN 1571133526. Published by Camden House in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
