JESSICA ORTNER is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark.

Scholars of contemporary German and German Jewish literature will find Ortner's Transcultural Memory more than useful for its framing of the contribution of writers from the former Soviet Union (and GDR) to current debates on German (and more generally Western) memory culture. More than this, however, its close readings will open up new ways of seeing key texts in the emerging canon of contemporary German Jewish literature.

• Introduction: Writing Against the Backdrop of European Memory Politics after 1989Part I. Contextualizing Literature of Mnemonic Migration: Political and Aesthetic Settings1: Politics and Memory: Overcoming the Mnemonic Division of Europe?2: Setting the Scene: Aesthetic Representations of EuropePart II. Imaginations of Europe-Nazism and Stalinism Rethought3: Redefining the Jewish Past: Vladimir Vertlib4: Family Memory as a Vessel of Amnesia: Katja Petrowskaja5: The East-West Division through the Lens of the Divided Germany: Barbara HonigmannPart III. Contesting Germany's Social Framework of Memory6: Traumatic Recollections: Olga Grjasnowa7: Dichotomy as a Principle of Mnemonic Migration: Lena GorelikConclusionBibliographyIndex

JESSICA ORTNER is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark.

Scholars of contemporary German and German Jewish literature will find Ortner's Transcultural Memory more than useful for its framing of the contribution of writers from the former Soviet Union (and GDR) to current debates on German (and more generally Western) memory culture. More than this, however, its close readings will open up new ways of seeing key texts in the emerging canon of contemporary German Jewish literature.

• Introduction: Writing Against the Backdrop of European Memory Politics after 1989Part I. Contextualizing Literature of Mnemonic Migration: Political and Aesthetic Settings1: Politics and Memory: Overcoming the Mnemonic Division of Europe?2: Setting the Scene: Aesthetic Representations of EuropePart II. Imaginations of Europe-Nazism and Stalinism Rethought3: Redefining the Jewish Past: Vladimir Vertlib4: Family Memory as a Vessel of Amnesia: Katja Petrowskaja5: The East-West Division through the Lens of the Divided Germany: Barbara HonigmannPart III. Contesting Germany's Social Framework of Memory6: Traumatic Recollections: Olga Grjasnowa7: Dichotomy as a Principle of Mnemonic Migration: Lena GorelikConclusionBibliographyIndex

JESSICA ORTNER is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark.

Scholars of contemporary German and German Jewish literature will find Ortner's Transcultural Memory more than useful for its framing of the contribution of writers from the former Soviet Union (and GDR) to current debates on German (and more generally Western) memory culture. More than this, however, its close readings will open up new ways of seeing key texts in the emerging canon of contemporary German Jewish literature.

• Introduction: Writing Against the Backdrop of European Memory Politics after 1989Part I. Contextualizing Literature of Mnemonic Migration: Political and Aesthetic Settings1: Politics and Memory: Overcoming the Mnemonic Division of Europe?2: Setting the Scene: Aesthetic Representations of EuropePart II. Imaginations of Europe-Nazism and Stalinism Rethought3: Redefining the Jewish Past: Vladimir Vertlib4: Family Memory as a Vessel of Amnesia: Katja Petrowskaja5: The East-West Division through the Lens of the Divided Germany: Barbara HonigmannPart III. Contesting Germany's Social Framework of Memory6: Traumatic Recollections: Olga Grjasnowa7: Dichotomy as a Principle of Mnemonic Migration: Lena GorelikConclusionBibliographyIndex