Herrmann / Taberner Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78204-569-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 166, 292 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herrmann, Elisabeth

Taberner, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Contemporary German-Language Literature and Transnationalism
How Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature?
Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Literary World-Building in the Twenty-First Century
Affect, Aesthetics, Biopower, and Technology: Political Interventions into Transnationalism
"On the Plane to Bishkek or in the Airport of Tashkent": Transnationalism and Notions of Home in Recent German Literature
Transnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open City
Writing Travel in the Global Age: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Reworking of Generic Conventions of Travel Literature in Ilija Trojanow's An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier Kontinenten
Europe's Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin
Precarious Sexualities, Neoliberalism, and the Pop-Feminist Novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as Transnational Texts
Dislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf
Cultural Dichotomies and Lived Transnationalism in Recent Russian-German Narratives
"Wo geh ich her?. Wo komm ich hin?": Delineating Transnational Spaces in the Work of Juli Zeh
Transnational Politics in Friedrich Du?rrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand
Appendix: Interview with Ilija Trojanow
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Taberner Stuart:
STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK.