Transnationalism in contemporary German-language literature /

"Transnationalism" has become a key term reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression, and it is also becoming more and more a "movi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: German Studies Association. Conference
Other Authors: Herrmann, Elisabeth (Editor), Smith, Carrie, 1975- (Editor), Taberner, Stuart (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2015]
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
2000-2099
German literature > 21st century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Transnationalism in literature > Congresses.
Littérature allemande > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Transnationalisme dans la littérature > Congrès.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Actes de congrès.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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