Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland’s Postmemory after 1989....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989–2005)....Pages 25-42
History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of Poland 1956–1990....Pages 43-63
“The Law Alleviates Concerns”: Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation....Pages 65-84
Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture....Pages 85-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
When Poland Was Home: Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf....Pages 109-130
Declaring War: Attitudes Toward the Years 1939–1945 in Polish Literature of the Post-1990s....Pages 131-145
Liberation from Memory: Memory, Postmemory, or Subverted Memory in What Does the Messenger Girl Do by Foks & Libera....Pages 147-167
Interviews with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009)....Pages 169-182
Genre and Intervention: Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear ....Pages 183-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Relocating Auschwitz: Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika....Pages 213-237
The “Lodzermensch”: From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism....Pages 239-258
“We Are Prussia Today”: Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State....Pages 259-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-287