Introduction / Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger
W.G. Sebald and German wartime suffering / Stephen Brockmann
The natural history of destruction : W.G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied bombings / Colette Lawson
Expulsion novels of the 1950s : more than meets the eye? / Karina Berger
"In this prison of the guard room" : Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 in the context of contemporary debates / Frank Finlay
Family, heritage, and German wartime suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm / Helmut Schmitz
Lost Heimat in generational novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath / Elizabeth Boa
"A different family story" : German wartime suffering in women's writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun / Caroline Schaumann
The place of German wartime suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's family text / David Clarke
"Why only now?" : the representation of German wartime suffering as a "memory taboo" in Günter Grass's novella Im Krebsgang / Katharina Hall
Rereading Der Vorleser, remembering the perpetrator / Rick Crownshaw
Narrating German suffering in the shadow of Holocaust victimology : W.G. Sebald, contemporary trauma theory, and Dieter Forte's air raids epic / Mary Cosgrove
Günter Grass's account of German wartime suffering in Beim Haüten der Zwiebel : mind in mourning or boy adventurer? / Helen Finch
Jackboots and jeans : the private and the political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders / Frank Finlay
Memory-work in recent German novels : what (if any) limits remain on empathy with the "German experience" of the second World War? / Stuart Taberner
"Secondary suffering" and victimhood : the "other" of German identity in Bernhard Schlink's "Die Beschneidung" and Maxim Biller's "Harlem holocaust" / Kathrin Schödel.
