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German Literature in a New Century
While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve "normalization." The essays in this volume take a closer look at Germany's new normalcy and argue for a more nuanced picture that considers the ruptures as well as the continuities. Germany's new generation of writers is more diverse than ever before, and their texts often not only speak of a Germany that is multicultural but also take a more playful attitude toward notions of identity. Written with an eye toward similar and dissimilar developments and traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, this volume balances overviews of significant trends in present-day cultural life with illustrative analyses of individual writers and texts.
Germans Going Global
Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed for Germany over the last two decades have been manifested and reimagined in aesthetic production. Analyses of the literary marketplace and public debates illuminate the more material sides of this development. The study also analyzes the ways in which German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975, such as Chr. Kracht, Th. Meinecke, J. Hermann, S. Berg, F. Illies, K. Röggla, J. v. Düff...
Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany
Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, theatre, film, television and art that respond to this situation. They demonstrate that, alongside the ways in which art expands the public sphere in terms of what is said and who is heard, aesthetic questions of how artistic works are presented are a crucial part of how they open up new perspectives.
Transitions
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 connections between public and private, personal and political. In their literature, the authors presented here reflect on the notion of transition and offer some unique interventions on its meaning in the contemporary era.
Into the Groove
A new and wide-ranging view of the confluence, since the 1990s, of the fields of contemporary literature and popular music in Germany.
German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives
In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.
Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature
Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture.
Writing the North of the North / L’Écriture du Nord du Nord / Den Norden des Nordens (be-)schreiben
The expression “North of the North” refers both to an objective, geographical reality – the territories situated at the highest latitudes on our planet – and to a subjective, mental construction which came into being many centuries ago and has been developed, modified and differentiated ever since. The chapters in the present volume examine various aspects of that concept, analysing texts and works of art from a range of regions and periods. La notion de « Nord du Nord » renvoie tout autant à la réalité géographique objective que sont les territoires des latitudes les plus élevées de notre planète qu’à une construction mentale subjective qui s’est constituée, développ...
Einführung in die französische Gegenwartspoesie
Diese erste ‚Einführung in die französische Gegenwartspoesie‘ in deutscher Sprache stellt mehr als zwanzig der wichtigsten zeitgenössischen Dichterinnen und Dichter Frankreichs vor: Adonis, Bianu, Bonnefoy, Celan, Chédid, Cheng, Deguy, Du Bouchet, Eck, Garanjoud, Gaspar, Khoury-Ghata, Longchamp, Romanès, Sautreau, Segalen, Siméon, Velter, Vigée, White u.a. Den „roten Faden“ dieser Einführung bildet die These einer ‚Mondopoethik‘, die die Poetiken des Oikos (des Wohnens auf der Erde) als die Trias ‚Dichter – Erde – Anderer‘ auffasst und damit die romanistische Forschung zum Thema Literatur und Ökologie um einen neuen Blickwinkel bereichert. Dieses Buch richtet sich an Studierende der Fächer Französisch und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft sowie an alle, die sich für Poesie begeistern.
Randbemerkungen
Der Band enthält 29 ausgewählte essayistische Texte Hans Bergels aus rund vier Jahrzehnten, darunter drei Interviews. Zeitgeschehen, Kunst und Literaturgeschichte, Völkerpsychologie, Persönlichkeitsporträts u. a. sind die Bereiche, denen sich der Autor Zeit seines Lebens neben erzählerischem Schaffen von der Novelle bis zum historischen Roman widmete; die Literaturkritik vermerkte längst, dass er auf beiden Ebenen Meisterhaftes leistete. Dabei weisen auch diese Essays eine seiner bezeichnenden Eigenschaften auf: Sie sind spannend und klar vorgetragen. Ob von der Intarsienkunst oder vom dichtenden Piloten und Saharadurchquerer die Rede ist, vom weltberühmten Krebsforscher, der Klavierwerke verfasst, oder der in der turkmenischen Oase geborenen Schriftstellerin, die den Baikal-See umwandert – es ist jedes Mal fesselnd, was Bergel mitteilt. Die atemberaubenden Schicksale, die Frauen und Männer, von denen er berichtet – großenteils persönlich Bekannte oder Freunde –, erfahren ebenso wie ihre Lebensthemen einprägsame Veranschaulichungen.
