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

Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland's Post-Memory after 1989; K.Kopp & J.Nizynska PART I: THE POLITICS OF POSTMEMORY Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989-2005); W.Jarzabek History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland 1956-1990; S.Guth 'The Law Alleviates Concerns': Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation; P.Lutomski Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture; H.Hein-Kircher PART II: THE GRAND NARRATIVES OF POSTMEMORY When Poland was Home: Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf; A.Bammer Declaring War: Attitudes Towards the Years 1939-1945 in the Literature of the Post-1990s; P.Czaplinski Liberation from Memory: Memory, Post-Memory, or Subverted Memory inWhat Does the Messenger Girl Doby Foks & Libera; M.Zaleski Interviews with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009); J.Labov & J.T.Gross Genre and Intervention: Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear; J.Labov Relocating Auschwitz: Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika; E.Lehrer The 'Lodzermensch': From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism; W.W.Chu 'We are Prussia Today': Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State; G.Thum