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Stuart Taberner
Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today's German Jewish - and Jewish - identity, including solidarity with others, even after October 7, 2023.
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A lively, comprehensive account of recent developments in German fiction.
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Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the ‘nation’ and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the…
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Explores the performance of aging in the late style of Gunter Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser.
These essays explore the diversity of the contemporary novel in German via close readings of international bestsellers (Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz) and less familiar…
This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants;
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The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. These informative and accessible readings build up a…
This Companion offers wide coverage of Grass’s oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. The newly commissioned essays explain, in a…
Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.
Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual in the face of extreme suffering.
A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today’s Germany.
First comprehensive look at how today’s German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.
The first major study of the contemporary German debate over normalization and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.
Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture.
