Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond (EPDF) von Kristy Kristy Boney

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of Storytelling - Kristy R. Boney and Jennifer Marston William
PART I. ANNA SEGHERS: A MISSING PIECE IN THE CANON OF MODERNIST STORYTELLERS
Anna Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years - Christiane Zehl Romero
Who Is the Narrator? Anna Seghers's "The Excursion of the Dead Girls": Narrative Mode and Cinematic Depiction - Peter Beicken
Anna Seghers's Rubble Literature, 1947-49 - Ute Brandes
Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic - Stephen Brockmann
Aufbauzeit orflaue Zeit? Anna Seghers's GDR Novels - Hunter Bivens
The Time of Decision in Anna Seghers - Benjamin Robinson
Filling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers's Conceptual Metaphors - Jennifer Marston William
PART II. EXPRESSIONS OF MODERNITY: USING STORYTELLING UNCONVENTIONALLY
Storytelling and Telling Stories in Heine's Prose Fiction - Robert C. Holub
Modernist Haze: Topographical Textures in Paul Klee and Franz Kafka - Kristy R. Boney
Synthesis and Transtextuality: The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in "Shanghai Ghetto" - Weijia Li
American Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools - Elizabeth Loentz
A Literary Depiction of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945 - Michaela Peroutkova
Changed for the Better? Alternative Uses of the Transformative Cancer Trope in Thomas Mann'sDie Betrogene and Nadine Gordimer'sGet a Life - Kristen Hetrick
PART III. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE: STORYTELLING IN ACUTE HISTORICAL MOMENTS
Problems and Effects of Autobiographical Storytelling:Als Pimpf in Polen: Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung 1940-1945 (1993) andA Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children during World War II (1998) - Jost Hermand
Too Near, Too Far: My GDR Story - Marc Silberman
Conflict without Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred - Andy Spencer
"Bleibt noch ein Lied zu singen": Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa Wolf's NovelKindheitsmuster - Luke Springman
Narrating Germany's Past: A Story of Exile and the Return Home-A Translation of the Chapter "Above the Lake" from Ursula Krechel's NovelLandgericht - Amy Kepple Strawser
Storytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa Streiber-Aurich - Sylvia Fischer
Notes on the Contributors