Transitions : : emerging women writers in German-language literature / / edited by Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye.

• TeilnehmendeR: Heffernan, Valerie.; Pye, Gillian.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: German monitor ; no. 76
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Notes: International conference proceedings.

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

Table of 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.