Table of Contents

Introduction: Visions of Violence; Chapter One: Deaths and Reconfigurations: Avant-Garde Time after Fascism; Chapter Two: Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body; Chapter Three: Nouveau Realismus: The Male Body and the Space of History; Chapter Four: Holocaust Simulations: Evoking Bare Life; Chapter Five: Technologies of Fascism and the Poetics of Silence and Light; Chapter Six: Alexander Kluge's Impossible Film; Chapter Seven: Phantasmagorias of Normalcy: Avant-Gardes after Unification; Index.

About the Author

Richard Langston is assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.