Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction
Redaktion: Bruce Campbell, Bruce; Petersen, Vibeke Rützou; Guenther-Pal, Alison

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.


Some of the most exciting research and teaching in the field of German Studies is being done on "genre fiction," including detective fiction, science fiction, and what is often called "poplit," to name but a few. Such non-canonical literature has long been marginalized by the German tradition of Bildung and the disciplinary practice of German literary studies (Germanistik). Even today, when the examination of non-canonical texts is well established and uncontroversial in other academic contexts, such texts remain understudied in German. And yet, the trend toward "German Studies" and "cultural studies" approaches within the field has raised considerable interest in theanalysis of genre fiction, resulting in both a great deal of new scholarship and a range of new courses. This first broad treatment of German genre fiction brings together innovative new scholarship, foregrounding themes of gender, environmentalism, and memory. It is an ideal companion to research and teaching. Written in accessible English, it speaks to a wide variety of disciplines beyond German Studies.

Contributors: Bruce B. Campbell, Ray Canoy, Kerry Dunne, Sonja Fritzsche, Maureen O. Gallagher, Adam R. King, Molly Knight, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Evan Torner, and Ailsa Wallace.

Bruce B. Campbell is Associate Professor of German Studies at the College ofWilliam and Mary. Alison Guenther-Pal is Assistant Professor of German and Film Studies at Lawrence University. Vibeke Rützou Petersen is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at Drake University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782043294
• Artikelnr.: 56163880

Autorenporträt

Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, Vibeke Rützou Petersen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke - Genre Fiction and Why It Is
Important German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses
of the Holocaust A Future History Out of Time: The Historical Context of
Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten
Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach
Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the
Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen The Imaginary FBI: Jerry
Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics
of Detective Fiction in West Germany Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site
of Memory in Contemporary Germany Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in
German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest The
Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences Through the Eyes
of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer The Kränzchen Library and the
Creation of Teenage Identity Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny
and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland Bibliography Notes on
the Contributors Index