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Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the
vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and
Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations
of two representative stories. Since the 1990s, the short story has
re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary
genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and
popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had
a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in
translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume
analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first
century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into
individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An
introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and
literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and
author-focused chapters then discuss key developments in the
contemporary German-language context, examining performance and
performativity, Berlin and crime stories, and the openendness,
fragmentation, liminality, and formal experimentations that
characterize short stories in the twenty-first century. Together
the chapters present the rich field of short-story writing in
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering a variety of
theoretical approaches to individual stories and collections, as
well as exploring connections with storytelling, modernist short
prose, and the novella. The volume concludes with a survey of broad
trends, and three original translations exemplifying the breadth of
contemporary German-language short-story writing.
German-language writings about Islam not only reveal much about
Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Islam
has been a rich topic in German-language literature since the
middle ages, and the writings about it not only reveal much about
Islamic culture but also about the European "home" culture. Many of
the early essays in this chronologically arranged volume uncover
fresh evidence of how German writers used images of Islam-as-other
to define their individual subject positions as well as to define
the German nation and the Christian religion. The perspectives of
many contemporary writers are, however, far removed from such a
polar opposition of cultures. Their experience of the
German-Islamic encounter is complicated by a crucial factor: many
of them emerge from Muslim migrant communities such as the
German-Turkish community. The culturally hybrid origins of these
writers and their expression of experiences and ideologies that
cross boundaries of East and West, Christendom and Islam, strongly
affect the findings of the essays as the volume moves toward the
present. The texts discussed include travelogues and other
firsthand encounters with Islam; reports for colonial authorities;
aesthetic treatises on Islamic art; literary, essayistic, and
theological writing on Islamic religious practice; the
incorporation of characters, situations, and settings from the
Islamic world into fiction or drama; and fictional and
autobiographical writing by Muslims in German. Contributors: Cyril
Edwards, Silke Falkner, James Hodkinson, Timothy R. Jackson,
Margaret Littler, Rachel MagShamrain, Frauke Matthes, Yomb May,
Jeffrey Morrison, Kate Roy, Monika Shafi, Edwin Wieringa, W. Daniel
Wilson,Karin E. Yesilada. James Hodkinson is Assistant Professor of
German at Warwick University; Jeffrey Morrison is Senior Lecturer
at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
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