Transitions : emerging women writers in German-language literature / edited by Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye.

Format:

Book

Series:

German monitor ; 0927-1910 no. 76.

German monitor, 0927-1910 ; no. 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, German--21st century--History and criticism.

Women authors, German.

German literature--21st century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

Contents:

Trends and transitions in contemporary German-language writing by women / Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye

The re-construction and deconstruction of a family narrative: Eva Menasse's Vienna / Daphne Seemann

No place like home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German past / Linda Shortt

Perspectives on the borderline: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer / Valerie Heffernan

Sewing an account of oneself: materiality, femininity, and Germaness in Larissa Boehning's Lichte Stoffe / Emily Jeremiah

Jenny Erpenbeck and the life of things / Gillian Pye

New-economy zombies: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht / Elaine Martin

Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Siobhán Donovan

Writing on the threshold: memory, language and identity in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht / Deirdre Byrnes

Politicising desire in Juli Zeh's Spieltrieb / Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter

Cartographies of self: Ilma Rakusa's autobiographical narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen / Carmel Finnan.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789042036895

9042036893

OCLC:

852126627