German Literature in a New Century
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German Literature in a New Century

Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

German Literature in a New Century

Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations

About this book

While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve "normalization." The essays in this volume take a closer look at Germany's new normalcy and argue for a more nuanced picture that considers the ruptures as well as the continuities. Germany's new generation of writers is more diverse than ever before, and their texts often not only speak of a Germany that is multicultural but also take a more playful attitude toward notions of identity. Written with an eye toward similar and dissimilar developments and traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, this volume balances overviews of significant trends in present-day cultural life with illustrative analyses of individual writers and texts.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page-German Literature in a New Century
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I-Trends
  6. Chapter 1-The litarary public sphere
  7. Chapter 2-Intellectuals in the public sphere
  8. Chapter 3-'Literatur Findet...Nicht Nur Auf Papier Statt"
  9. Chapter 4-The Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and the Making of an Author
  10. Part II-Traditions
  11. Chapter 5-Degrees of History in Contemporary German Narratives
  12. Chapter 6-Luftkrieg Revisited
  13. Chapter 7-An Aesthetics of Memory for third-generation Germans
  14. Chapter 8-The continuation of countermemory
  15. Part III-Transitions
  16. Chapter 9-A Path of Poetic Potentials
  17. Chapter 10-Performing GDR in Poetry?
  18. Chapter 11-Feridum Zaimoglu's Performance of Gender and Authorship
  19. Part IV-Transformations
  20. Chapter 12-From Frauenliteratur to Frauenliteraturbetrieb
  21. Chapter 13-Social Alienation and Gendered Surveillance
  22. Chapter 14-Small Stories
  23. Chapter 15-The young author as public intellectual
  24. Contributors
  25. Index