The rhetoric of national dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek

Introduction: Consensus and dissent in contemporary Austrian literature

Publikumsbeschimpfung: Thomas Bernhard's provocations of the Austrian public sphere

Cultural amnesia and the narration of the everyday: Peter Handke's post-ideological aesthetics

Elfriede Jelinek's Austria: simulations of death

Concluding remarks: The emergence of recent Austrian Jewish writing.