The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Marven, Lyn; Roy, Kate; Plowman, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories.



Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns.
An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapters then discuss key developments in the contemporary German-language context, examining performance and performativity, Berlin and crime stories, and the openendness, fragmentation, liminality, and formal experimentations that characterize short stories in the twenty-first century. Together the chapters present the rich field of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering a variety of theoretical approaches to individual stories and collections, as well as exploring connections with storytelling, modernist short prose, and the novella. The volume concludes with a survey of broad trends, and three original translations exemplifying the breadth of contemporary German-language short-story writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787449886
• Artikelnr.: 61248489

Autorenporträt

Lyn Marven, Andrew Plowman, Kate Roy

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Note on Translations Introduction to the Contemporary Short Story in German
Andrew Plowman, Lyn Marven, and Kate Roy Chapter 1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty
First Century
Katharina Gerstenberger Chapter 2: The German Crime Story in the Twenty
First Century
Todd Herzog Chapter 3: Performance, Performativity, and the Contemporary German Kurzgeschichte
Emily Spiers Chapter 4: Cramped Spaces, Creative Bottlenecks: Sudabeh Mohafez's das zehn
zeilen
buch and the Short
Short
Kate Roy Chapter 5: Bodo Kirchhoff's Widerfahrnis: A Novelle for Our Time?
Helmut Schmitz Chapter 6: The Liminal Space of the Short Story: Clemens Meyer's Die Nacht, die Lichter and Die stillen Trabanten
Gillian Pye Chapter 7: Framing the Presence: Judith Hermann's Lettipark
Leonhard Herrmann Chapter 8: Of Unhomed Subjects and Unsettled Voices: Alois Hotschnig's Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht
Heide Kunzelmann Chapter 9: Literary Development and Rewriting Spaces in the "Complete Stories": Peter Stamm's Der Lauf der Dinge
Andrew Plowman Chapter 10: On Disappearing: Reading Ulrike Almut Sandig with Sylvia Bovenschen
Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa Chapter 11: Metamorphic Becomings: Yoko Tawada's Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen
Áine McMurtry Chapter 12: Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001: Performance, Politics, and Poetry
Rafaël Newman and Caroline Wiedmer Chapter 13: Rhizomatic Wanderings: The Writings of Gabriele Petricek
Margarete Lamb
Faffelberger Chapter 14: Trends and Issues in the Contemporary German
Language Short Story
Lyn Marven Appendix: Contemporary German
Language Short Stories in Translation Sudabeh Mohafez, A Short
Short Selection
Translated by Kate Roy Roman Ehrlich, "Engineers of Time"
Translated by Lyn Marven Saa Stanii¿, "The Factory"
Translated by Lyn Marven Bibliography of Primary Texts Notes on Contributors