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Transitions : emerging women writers in German-language literature / edited by Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- German monitor ; 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first century, such as the adaptation to evolving political and social conditions in a newly united Germany; globalisation, the dissolution of borders, and the changing face of Europe; dramatic shifts in the meaning of national, ethnic, sexual, gender, religious, and class identities; rapid technological advancement and the revolutionary power of new media, which in turn have radically altered the connec
- 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 / Siobhan 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 94-012-0948-0
- OCLC:
- 858764920
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