Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance
in and for German-language literature and culture. Transnationalism
has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and
humanities, reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of
commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders.
Forced and unforced mobility, intensified cross-border economic
activity due to globalization, and the rise of trans- and
supranational organizations are just some of the ways in which we
now live both within, across, and beyond national borders.
Literature has always been a means of border crossing and
transgression-whether by tracing physical movement, reflecting
processes of cultural transfer, traveling through space and time,
or mapping imaginary realms. It is alsobecoming more and more a
"moving medium" that creates a transnational space by circulating
around the world, both reflecting on the reality of
transnationalism and participating in it. This volume refines our
understanding of transnationalism both as a contemporary reality
and as a concept and an analytical tool. Engaging with the work of
such writers as Christian Kracht, Ilija Trojanow, Julya Rabinowich,
Charlotte Roche, Helene Hegemann, Antje Ravic Strubel, Juli Zeh,
Friedrich Durrenmatt, and Wolfgang Herrndorf, it builds on the
excellent work that has been done in recent years on "minority"
writers; German-language literature, globalization, and "world
literature"; and gender and sexuality in relation to the "nation."
Contributors: Hester Baer, Anke S. Biendarra, Claudia Breger,
Katharina Gerstenberger, Elisabeth Herrmann, Christina Kraenzle,
Maria Mayr, Tanja Nusser, Lars Richter, Carrie Smith-Prei, Faye
Stewart, Stuart Taberner. Elisabeth Herrmann is Associate Professor
of German at Stockholm University. Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate
Professor of German at the University of Alberta. Stuart Taberner
is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society
at the University of Leeds and is a Research Associate in the
Department of Afrikaans and Dutch; German and French at the
University of the Free State, South Africa.
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