Biendarra Germans Going Global

Contemporary Literature and Cultural Globalization
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028291-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Interdisciplinary German Cultural StudiesISSN

is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed for Germany over the last two decades have been manifested and reimagined in aesthetic production. Analyses of the literary marketplace and public debates illuminate the more material sides of this development. The study also analyzes the ways in which German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975, such as Chr. Kracht, Th. Meinecke, J. Hermann, S. Berg, F. Illies, K. Röggla, J. v. Düffel, and G. Hens, respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these have influenced notions of authorship and literary aesthetics. It shows how narratives dealing with the neoliberal work world, global travel, and the aftermath of 09/11 implicitly comment on contemporary debates on globalization, its socio-economic nature, and the impact for local culture. By presenting a literary history of the present, deepens the reader’s understanding of contemporary Germany and its cultural production.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biendarra, Anke

Biendarra, Anke S.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;9
1.1;Introduction: Contemporary German Literature and Cultural Globalization;11
2;1 Effects of Globalization on the Literary Marketplace and Contemporary Authorship;29
2.1;Distinctive Features of Germany’s Literary Marketplace;30
2.2;Authorship: Changed Paradigms;33
2.3;Showing the Authorial Self;38
2.4;Fräuleinwunder;45
2.5;The Rise of New German Pop Literature;48
2.6;Fashioning the Authorial Self on the World Wide Web;53
2.7;Personal Web Sites as a Medium of Authorial Self Representation;56
2.8;Authorship 2.0: Stephenie Meyer;61
3;2 Globalizing German Literature: Literary Debates around the Millennium;67
3.1;Debates among Older Intellectuals;69
3.2;...ist alles so schön bunt hier: Debates on Contemporary Realism;75
3.3;Authentische Alltäglichkeit: Turning towards a Literature of the Authentic Everyday;84
3.4;Ingo Schulze’s Simple Storys (1998);86
3.5;Elke Naters’s Königinnen (1998) and Lügen (1999);91
4;3 Brave New Work World: Narratives of the New Economy;99
4.1;Recent Developments in the German Economy;103
4.2;The Individual in Precarious Times;107
4.3;A Short History of Work Literature;110
4.4;Narratives of Work in the Aughts;112
4.5;The Aesthetics of the Surface: The Work of (M)Ad Men in Joachim Bessing’s Wir Maschine (2001) and Rainer Merkel’s Das Jahr der Wunder (2001);113
4.6;Economized Bodies: John von Düffel’s EGO (2001);126
4.7;The Readability of the World in Ghostly Times: Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht (2004);130
5;4 Forms of Social Realism: Unemployment in Contemporary Narratives;139
5.1;Sentenced to Idleness: Annette Pehnt’s Mobbing (2007) and Jakob Hein’s Herr Jensen steigt aus (2006);142
5.2;Flotsam of Globalization: Joachim Zelter’s Die Schule der Arbeitslosen (2006);149
6;5 Traveling Without Moving? Narratives of (Im)Mobility;157
6.1;Global Tourists in Judith Hermann’s Nichts als Gespenster (2003);163
6.2;Mobile Cosmopolitans in Gregor Hens’s Transfer Lounge (2003);167
6.3;Global and Local Violence: Gregor Hens’s Matta verlässt seine Kinder (2004);170
6.4;Hedonism Gone Global: Christian Kracht’s Der gelbe Bleistift (1999);174
6.5;No Happiness on Earth: Sibylle Berg’s Die Fahrt (2007);182
6.6;Retreating to the Province: Florian Illies’s Ortsgespräch (2006);190
7;6 Coda: Piles of Authenticity: Narrating 09/11;199
8;Works Cited;211
9;Index;237

Über Autor(innen)

Biendarra, Anke
Anke S. Biendarra, University of California, Irvine, USA.