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The wounded self : writing illness in twenty-first-century German literature /

In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes such writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to wri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt, Nina, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Autofiction, disgust, and trauma: negotiating vulnerable subject positions in Charlotte Roche's Schossgebete
  • Looking beyond the self-reflecting the other: staring as a narrative device in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht
  • Intertextuality and the transnational in Verena Stefan's Fremdschlafer: writing breast cancer from beyond the border
  • Confronting cancer publicly: diary writing in extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf
  • Conclusion: "und was dann": recent developments and research desiderata.