Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

List of Abbreviations

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Speech and Survival: Precarious Identities in the Danzig Trilogy

pp 9-10

1 - Die Blechtrommel: The Language of Judgment

pp 11-28

2 - Katz und Maus: Empty Words and Dangerous Rhetoric

pp 29-41

3 - Hundejahre: Between Revelation and Obfuscation

pp 42-56

Part II - Educating the Public: Democracy and Dialogue in the Mid-Career Novels

pp 57-58

4 - Örtlich betäubt: Student Protest and Pedagogical Dialogue

pp 59-68

5 - Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke: Family Conversations and Political Speech

pp 69-80

6 - Der Butt: The Struggle for Communicative Dominance

pp 81-94

7 - Das Treffen in Telgte: Debates in a Literary Forum

pp 95-105

8 - Die Rättin: Existence and Speech after Apocalypse

pp 106-116

Part III - Confronting Memory: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Post-Wall Fiction

pp 117-118

9 - Unkenrufe: East-West Exchanges and the Remembrance Business

pp 119-128

10 - Ein weites Feld: Rhetorical Performance in the New Berlin

pp 129-144

11 - Mein Jahrhundert: An Exercise in Oral History

pp 145-157

12 - Im Krebsgang: Facing a Discourse of Hatred

pp 158-170

Part IV - The Mediated Self: Communicative Approaches in Autobiography

pp 171-172

13 - Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Dialogues with Memory

pp 173-191

14 - Die Box: Conversations around the Family Album

pp 192-202

15 - Grimms Wörter: Deliberations on Language and Legacy

pp 203-219

Epilogue: Taking Leave in Vonne Endlichkait

pp 220-224

Notes

pp 225-262

Bibliography

pp 263-280

Index

pp 281-295