Transnationalism in contemporary German-language literature / Edited by Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

German Studies Association. Conference (37th : 2013 : Denver, Colo.)

Contributor:

Herrmann, Elisabeth, editor.

Smith, Carrie, 1975- editor.

Taberner, Stuart, editor.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German literature.

Transnationalism in literature--Congresses.

Transnationalism in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.

Summary:

"Transnationalism" has become a key term reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression, and it is also becoming more and more a "moving medium" that creates a transnational space by circulating around the world, both reflecting on the reality of transnationalism and participating in it. This volume refines our understanding of transnationalism both as a contemporary reality and as a concept and an analytical tool -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: Contemporary German-language literature and transnationalism / Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner

Contexts. How does transnationalism redefine contemporary literature? / Elisabeth Herrmann

Transnationalism and cosmopolitanism: literary world-building in the twenty-first century / Stuart Taberner

Affect, aesthetics, biopower, and technology: political interventions into transnationalism / Carrie Smith-Prei

Texts. "On the plane to Bishkek or in the airport of Tashkent": transnationalism and notions of home in recent German literature / Katharina Gerstenberger

Transnationalism, colonial loops, and the vicissitudes of cosmopolitan affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open City / Claudia Breger

Writing travel in the global age: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the reworking of generic conventions of travel literature in Ilija Trojanow's An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier Kontinenten / Christina Kraenzle

Europe's invisible ghettos: transnationalism and neoliberal capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin / Maria Mayr

Precarious sexualities, neoliberalism, and the pop-feminist novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as transnational texts / Hester Baer

Dislocation, multiplicity, and transformation: posttransnationalism in Antje Ravic Strubel's Kaltere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf / Faye Stewart

Cultural dichotomies and lived transnationalism in recent Russian-German narratives / Anke S. Biendarra

"Wo geh ich her? . . . wo komm ich hin?": delineating transnational spaces in the work of Juli Zeh / Lars Richter

Transnational politics in Friedrich Dürrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand / Tanja Nusser

Appendix: Interview with Ilija Trojanow / Elisabeth Herrmann and Carrie Smith-Prei.

Notes:

"The foundation for this volume was laid at a three-day-long seminar workshop entitled "Transnationalisms: Sexualities, Fantasies, and the World Beyond" that took place at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Denver, Colorado, October 3-6, 2013. Scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe working in different fields and disciplines came together to debate fundamental questions regarding the form, concerns, and impact of German-language transnational literature today." -- Acknowledgments

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781571139252

1571139257

OCLC:

904081564