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Presented by Agnes M眉ller.

This lecture addresses contemporary German literary representations of, references to, and reflections on the transgenerational memory and trauma of the Holocaust. Fictional works by best-selling writers of the so-called second generation (born around 1940, i.e. Bernhard Schlink and Peter Schneider) as well as works by important younger writers (Susanne Riedel, b. 1951, Thomas Hettche, b. 1967, and Julia Franck, b. 1970) articulate stereotypical, antisemitic, anti-American, and sexist rhetoric.

Presumably, these works seek to answer questions of ethics and aesthetics of representation, popularization, and Americanization of the Holocaust. Yet, the texts appear to consider themselves no longer indebted to such issues of morality, and operate beyond previously perceived 鈥渢aboos鈥� of performative articulation, instead displaying long-standing gender and race stereotypes. This raises important and unsettling questions. Is the antisemitism and sexism that is so clearly emergent in today鈥檚 best-selling German literature no longer considered 鈥渢aboo鈥�? Are textual representations of gender and race stereotyping a reference to similar issues found in everyday life? Do works by these writers, then, have the effect of enabling readers to work through those very issues with the ultimate goal of eliminating them, or does such fiction rather function to confirm the troubling gender and antisemitic stereotyping even further?