Refractions of Germany in and Culture

Edited by

Hein2 Antor Sylvia Brown John Considine Klaus Stierstorfer

Walter de Gruyter • Berlin • New York Contents

Foreword V JOHN CONSIDINE, Introduction 1 ROBERT KROETSCH, Occupying Landscape We Occupy Story We Occupy Landscape 23

Diaspora and Settledness 31 SYLVIA BROWN, Voices From the Borderlands: The Problem of "Home" in the Oral Histories of German Expellees in Canada 33 ANNA WITTMANN, From Hungary to Germany to Canada: Gheorghiu's Twenty-Fifth Hour and Shifting Swabian Identities 57 PETER WEBB, Martin Blecher: Tom Thomson's Murderer or Victim of War- time Prejudice? 91 THOMAS MENGEL, Der deutsche Katholik in Kanada: An Approach to the Mentalite of German-speaking Catholics in Canada through an Analysis of their Journal 105 HEINZ ANTOR, The Mennonite Experience in the Novels of ... 121 JOHN CONSIDINE, Dialectology, Storytelling, and Memory: Jack Thiessen's Mennonite Dictionaries 145

Jewish Experience and the Holocaust 169 AXEL STAHLER, The Black Forest, the Unspeakable Nefas, and the Mountains of Galilee: Germany and Zionism in the Works of A. M.Klein 171 VIII Contents

KLAUS STIERSTORFER, Canadian Recontextualizations of a German Nightmare: Henry Kreisel's Betrayal (1964) 195 LAURENZ VOLKMANN, "Flowers for Hitler": Leonard Cohen's Holocaust Poetry in the Context of Jewish and Jewish-Canadian Literature .... 207 ALBERT-REINER GLAAP, Views on the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Plays . . 239

Literature and Cultural Exchange 257 ANNETTE KERN-STAHLER, "The inability to mourn": the Post-war German Psyche in 's Fiction 259 DORIS WOLF, Dividing and Reuniting Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters: the Black Motherline, Vergangenheitsbewdltigung Studies, and the Road Genre in Suzette Mayr's The Widows . 271 GORDON BOLLING, Acts of (Re-)Construction: Traces of Germany in 's Novel The Stone Carvers 295 JAMES SKIDMORE, Urquhart's Fairy Tale: The German Cultural Imaginary in The Stone Carvers 319 JORG ESLEBEN, Goethe's Faust in Canada, 1834-1970 331 EVA-MARIE KROLLER, The New Canadian Embassy in Berlin 343

List of Contributors 365 Index 369