Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New German-Language Writing since the Turn of the Millennium
- 1 Ulrike Draesner, Mitgift: On Bodies and Beauty
- 2 Vladimir Vertlib, Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur: Performing Jewishness in the New Germany
- 3 Terézia Mora, Alle Tage: Transnational Traumas
- 4 Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb: Contemporary Nihilism
- 5 Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt: Measuring Celebrity through the Ages
- 6 Clemens Meyer, Als wir träumten: Fighting “Like a Man” in Leipzig’s East
- 7 Saša Stanišić, Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert: Reinscribing Bosnia, or: Sad Things, Positively
- 8 Ilija Trojanow, Der Weltensammler: Separate Bodies, or: An Account of Intercultural Failure
- 9 Sibylle Berg, Die Fahrt: Literature, Germanness, and Globalization
- 10 Julia Franck, Die Mittagsfrau: Historia Matria and Matrilineal Narrative
- 11 Alina Bronsky, Scherbenpark: Global Ghetto Girl
- 12 Karen Duve, Taxi: Of Alpha Males, Apes, Altenberg, and Driving in the City
- 13 Yadé Kara, Cafe Cyprus: New Territory?
- 14 Sven Regener, Der kleine Bruder: Reinventing Kreuzberg
- 15 Kathrin Schmidt, Du stirbst nicht: A Woman’s Quest for Agency
- Appendices Samples of Contemporary German-Language Novels in Translation
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Notes on the Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New German-Language Writing since the Turn of the Millennium
- 1 Ulrike Draesner, Mitgift: On Bodies and Beauty
- 2 Vladimir Vertlib, Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur: Performing Jewishness in the New Germany
- 3 Terézia Mora, Alle Tage: Transnational Traumas
- 4 Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb: Contemporary Nihilism
- 5 Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt: Measuring Celebrity through the Ages
- 6 Clemens Meyer, Als wir träumten: Fighting “Like a Man” in Leipzig’s East
- 7 Saša Stanišić, Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert: Reinscribing Bosnia, or: Sad Things, Positively
- 8 Ilija Trojanow, Der Weltensammler: Separate Bodies, or: An Account of Intercultural Failure
- 9 Sibylle Berg, Die Fahrt: Literature, Germanness, and Globalization
- 10 Julia Franck, Die Mittagsfrau: Historia Matria and Matrilineal Narrative
- 11 Alina Bronsky, Scherbenpark: Global Ghetto Girl
- 12 Karen Duve, Taxi: Of Alpha Males, Apes, Altenberg, and Driving in the City
- 13 Yadé Kara, Cafe Cyprus: New Territory?
- 14 Sven Regener, Der kleine Bruder: Reinventing Kreuzberg
- 15 Kathrin Schmidt, Du stirbst nicht: A Woman’s Quest for Agency
- Appendices Samples of Contemporary German-Language Novels in Translation
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century , pp. 261 - 264Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011