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Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations
Edited by Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse
| 272 pages, bibliog., index ISBN 978-1-84545-547-7 Hb $90.00/£45.00 Published (October 2008) Buy now and get 15% off listed price |
“This outstanding collection of insightful and thought-provoking articles marks a significant advancement of scholarship on contemporary scholarship. While contributions (remarkable for their consistently high quality) are valuable on their, all benefit from being read in conjunction with the others.” · German Studies Review
“Taken as a whole, this is an important contribution to scholarship on contemporary German-language literature. Its emphasis on younger authors, on literary marketing, and on female and Turkish-German authors confirms that literature continues to provide an important forum for discussions of German identity, but that in the new century the contours of that identity are rapidly changing.” · Monatshefte
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.
Contributors: Donovan Anderson, Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Birgit Dahlke, Katharina Gerstenberger, Rachel J. Halverson, Patricia Herminghouse, Josef Joffe, Julia Karolle-Berg, Sean McIntyre, Erika M. Nelson, Beret Norman, Sidney Norton, Gary Schmidt, Patricia Anne Simpson, Katya Skow, John Pizer and Aine Zimmerman.
Katharina Gerstenberger is Associate 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.
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.
Contents
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 Şenocak 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