Witnessing, Memory, Poetics

Helen Finch, Lynn L. Wolff

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.

Introduction: The Adler-Sebald Intertextual Relationship as Paradigm for Intergenerational Literary TestimonyThe Connections between H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald, from a Personal PerspectiveMemory's Witness-Witnessing MemoryWriting the Medusa: A Documentation of H. G. Adler and Theresienstadt in W. G. Sebald's LibraryPoetics of Bearing Witness: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald"Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte(n)": Memory and Intertextuality in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald"Der Autor zwischen Literatur und Politik": H. G. Adler's "Engagement" and W. G. Sebald's "Restitution"Memory, Witness, and the (Holocaust) Museum in H. G. Adler and W. G. SebaldHistory, Emotions, Literature: The Representation of Theresienstadt in H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt 1941-1945, Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft and W. G. Sebald's AusterlitzThe Kafkaesque in H. G. Adler's and W. G. Sebald's Literary HistoriographiesGenerational Conflicts, Generational Affinities: Broch, Adorno, Adler, Sebald"Der verwerfliche Literaturbetrieb unserer Epoche": H. G. Adler and the Postwar West German "Literary Field"AfterwordBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex