Transnationalism and German Language Literature in the Twenty First Century

Transnationalism and German Language Literature in the Twenty First Century
Author: Stuart Taberner
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783319504841

Download Transnationalism and German Language Literature in the Twenty First Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism. The book proceeds through a series of close readings of key texts of the last twenty years, with an emphasis on the most recent works. Authors include Terézia Mora, Richard Wagner, Olga Grjasnowa, Marlene Streeruwitz, Vladimir Vertlib, Navid Kermani, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, Ilija Trojanow, Christian Kracht, and Christa Wolf, representing the diversity of contemporary German-language writing. Through a careful process of juxtaposition and differentiation, the individual chapters demonstrate that writers of both minority and nonminority backgrounds address transnationalism in ways that certainly vary but which also often overlap in surprising ways.

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature
Author: Frauke Matthes
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783031103186

Download New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’s self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere.

The Short Story in German in the Twenty first Century

The Short Story in German in the Twenty first Century
Author: Lyn Marven,Andrew Plowman,Kate Roy
Publsiher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020
Genre: German fiction
ISBN: 9781640140462

Download The Short Story in German in the Twenty first Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Transnationalism in Contemporary German language Literature

Transnationalism in Contemporary German language Literature
Author: German Studies Association. Conference
Publsiher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571139252

Download Transnationalism in Contemporary German language Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"Transnationalism" has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Forced and unforced mobility, intensified cross-border economic activity due to globalization, and the rise of trans- and supranational organizations are just some of the ways in which we now live both within, across, and beyond national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression-whether by tracing physical movement, reflecting processes of cultural transfer, traveling through space and time, or mapping imaginary realms. 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. Engaging with the work of such writers as Christian Kracht, Ilija Trojanow, Julya Rabinowich, Charlotte Roche, Helene Hegemann, Antje R vic Strubel, Juli Zeh, Friedrich D rrenmatt, and Wolfgang Herrndorf, it builds on the excellent work that has been done in recent years on "minority" writers; German-language literature, globalization, and "world literature"; and gender and sexuality in relation to the "nation." Contributors: Hester Baer, Anke S. Biendarra, Claudia Breger, Katharina Gerstenberger, Elisabeth Herrmann, Christina Kraenzle, Maria Mayr, Tanja Nusser, Lars Richter, Carrie Smith-Prei, Faye Stewart, Stuart Taberner. Elisabeth Herrmann is Associate Professor of German at Stockholm University. Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German at the University of Alberta. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Leeds and is a Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch; German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

German in the World

German in the World
Author: James Hodkinson,Benedict Schofield
Publsiher: Studies in German Literature L
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781640140332

Download German in the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change.

Transnational German Studies

Transnational German Studies
Author: Rebecca Braun,Benedict Schofield
Publsiher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781789627312

Download Transnational German Studies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.

Modern Germany

Modern Germany
Author: Wendell G. Johnson,Katharina Barbe
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9798216118558

Download Modern Germany Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Modern Germany explores life, society, and history in this comprehensive thematic encyclopedia, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender. Germany and its capital, Berlin, were the fulcrum of geopolitics in the twentieth century. After the Second World War, Germany was a divided nation. Many German citizens were born and educated and continued to work in eastern Germany (the former German Democratic Republic). This title in the Understanding Modern Nations series seeks to explain contemporary life and traditional culture through thematic encyclopedic entries. Themes in the book cover geography; history; politics and government; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and pop culture. Within each theme, short topical entries cover a wide array of key concepts and ideas, from LGBTQ issues in Germany to linguistic dialects to the ever-famous Oktoberfest. Geared specifically toward high school and undergraduate German students, readers interested in history and travel will find this book accessible and engaging.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 14

Edinburgh German Yearbook 14
Author: Frauke Matthes,Dora Osborne,Katya Krylova,Myrto Aspioti
Publsiher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Politics and culture
ISBN: 9781640140844

Download Edinburgh German Yearbook 14 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.