Transnationalism in contemporary German-language literature. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner.
• Editors: Herrmann, Elisabeth; Smith-Prei, Carrie, 1975-; Taberner, Stuart
• Other Names: German Studies Association., Conference, (37th) 2013 (Denver, Colo.)
• Contents: Introduction: Contemporary German-language literature and transnationalism / Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner -- 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 -- "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.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (283 pages)
• Subjects: 830.9/3581; German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Transnationalism in literature -- Congresses; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; German literature; Transnationalism in literature; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782045694; 1782045694
• Related ISBNs: 9781571139252; 1571139257
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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