Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

1. Introduction: Family Narratives Between Vernacular and Official Memory
Anne Fuchs

2. Generational Conflict and Masculinity in Väterliteratur by Christoph Meckel, Uwe Timm, Dagmar Leupold and Ulla Hahn
Anne Fuchs

3. Family Narratives and Postmemory: Günter Grass’s Im Krebsgang, Tanja Dückers’s Himmelskörper and Marcel Beyer’s Spione
Anne Fuchs

4. Heimat and Territory in Thomas Medicus’s In den Augen meines Großvaters and Stephan Wackwitz’s Ein unsichtbares Land
Anne Fuchs

5. Narrating Resistance to the Third Reich: Museum Discourse, Autobiography, Fiction and Film
Anne Fuchs

6. Hitler Youth Autobiographies: Günter Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel and Joachim Fest’s Ich nicht
Anne Fuchs

7. Epilogue: Germany as a Threshold Culture
Anne Fuchs

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, Film History, European Politics, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Germany and Central Europe