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…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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
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