Holocaust as Fiction

William Collins Donahue is Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages at Duke University, USA.

Introduction: "Mighty Aphrodite" - Or How to Have it Both Ways * Resister after the Fact : Schlink's Selb Trilogy and the Culture of Politically Correct Holocaust Literature * Soothing Fictions: Ambiguity as Defense * "What Would You Have Done?": Guilt as Virtue * Fathers & Sons: Two Kinds of Second Generation Victim * The Holocaust's "Afterlife" in Contemporary German Literature: Select Case Studies * The Reader as an American Novel * The Hollywood Reader