Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing
female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and
thematic terms in which German women's literature has been
conceived. What is the status of women's writing in German today,
in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary
conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory,
including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel
Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of
conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal,
aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has
been conceived. With aneye to the literary and feminist legacy of
authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors
treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant
literary voices, including Hatice Akyun, Sibylle Berg,Thea Dorn,
Tanja Duckers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina
Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Ravic Strubel --
authors who, through their writing or their roles in the media,
engage with questionsof what it means to be a woman writer in
twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia
Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill,
Lindsay Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne
Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester
Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University
of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Associate Professor of German
at the University of Portland.
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