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