German Literature in a New Century

Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-547-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 0, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerstenberger, Katharina

Herminghouse, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations

Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse

PART I: TRENDS: LITERATURE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Patricia Herminghouse

Chapter 1. The Literary Public Sphere: A Case for German Particularity?

Sean McIntyre

Chapter 2. Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: An Interview

Josef Joffe

Chapter 3. Literatur findet. nicht nur auf Papier statt”: The Eventization of Literature in Hamburg

Donovan Anderson

Chapter 4. The Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and the Making of an Author: Tobias Hülswitt Hits the Road for Literature and Ends Up a Writer

Rachel J. Halverson

PART II: TRADITIONS: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND NARRATIVE

Laurel Cohen-Pfister

Chapter 5. Degrees of History in Contemporary German Narratives

Patricia Anne Simpson

Chapter 6. Luftkrieg Revisited: Contemporary Responses to the Allied Bombings of German Cities

Sydney Norton

Chapter 7. An Aesthetics of Memory for Third-Generation Germans: Tanja Dückers’s Himmelskörper

Laurel Cohen-Pfister

Chapter 8. The Continuation of Countermemory: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde

John Pizer

PART III:TRANSITIONS: FORM AND PERFORMANCE AFTER 1989

Katharina Gerstenberger

Chapter 9. A Path of Poetic Potentials: Coordinates of German Lyric Identity in the Poetry of Zafer Senocak

Erika M. Nelson

Chapter 10. Performing GDR in Poetry?: The Literary Significance of “East German” Poetry in Unified Germany

Birgit Dahlke

Chapter 11. Feridun Zaimoglu’s Performance of Gender and Authorship

Gary Schmidt

PART IV: TRANSFORMATIONS: WOMEN WRITING IN THE NEW CENTURY

Patricia Herminghouse

Chapter 12. From Frauenliteratur to Frauenliteraturbetrieb: Marketing Literature to German Women in the Twenty-first Century

Julia Karolle-Berg and Katya Skow

Chapter 13. Social Alienation and Gendered Surveillance in Julia Franck’s Works

Beret Norman

Chapter 14. Small Stories: The Novels of Martina Hefter

Katharina Gerstenberger

Chapter 15. The Young Author as Public Intellectual: The Case of Juli Zeh

Patricia Herminghouse

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Herminghouse, Patricia
Patricia Herminghouse is the Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor emerita of German Studies at the University of Rochester. She has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, the social contexts of women’s writing, German identity, and German émigrés in nineteenth-century America.

Gerstenberger, Katharina
Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor of German and Head of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her PhD from Cornell University in 1993. She is the author of Truth to Tell: German Women’s Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture (2000). She also publishes on contemporary literature and identity.

Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor of German and Head of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her PhD from Cornell University in 1993. She is the author of Truth to Tell: German Women’s Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture (2000). She also publishes on contemporary literature and identity.