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New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic
relationships and love in German literature since around the turn
of the millennium. While sociologists have long agreed that the
problems of modern and contemporary subjectivity crystallize in the
issue of romantic relationships and love (e.g., Luhmann, Illouz,
Beck, etc.), the theme of love, so crucial to the foundational text
of modern German literature, Goethe's Werther, all but disappeared
from German prose literature in the second half of the twentieth
century. Yet over the past fifteen years German-language literature
has witnessed an explosion of novels with "Liebe" in their titles
as well as novels that centrally focus on intersubjective erotic
and emotional relationships. A number of major contemporary writers
(Treichel, Walser, Kermani, Ortheil, Maron, Zaimoglu, Genazino)
have written Liebesromane or novels in which significant
sociohistorical questions are refracted through the love
relationships of their protagonists. German film likewise has
increasingly thematized love relationships under postromantic
conditions, e.g. in the films of the Berlin school. Simultaneously,
the development of both feminist and LGBTQ politics over the past
decades has exploded the heteronormative discourses ofdesire in a
way that has both expanded and enriched the lovers' discourse,
while recent developments of urban (hetero)sexuality have expanded
the previously available models of expressing erotic relationships
in ways that are reminiscent of the utopian ending of Goethe's
first version of Stella. The present collection offers a
wide-ranging set of essays on these developments. Contributors:
Esther K. Bauer, Sven Glawion, Silke Horstkotte,Sarra Kassem, Maria
Roca Lizarazu, Helmut Schmitz, Angelika Vybiral. Helmut Schmitz is
Reader in German at the University of Warwick. Peter Davies is
Professor and Head of German at the University of Edinburgh.
Contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBTQ+
individuals and issues in historical and contemporary
German-speaking culture. The German-speaking lands have a long
history of engagement, ranging from celebratory to horrific, with
non-normative genders and sexualities, including through cultural
output, language, and politics. Queering German Culture, volume 10
of the Edinburgh German Yearbook, foregrounds this via new analyses
of a variety of LGBTQ+ cultural artifacts - archives both physical
and digital, literature in the form of novels and periodicals, and
film both narrative and documentary - to consider a spectrum of
gender and sexual identities. Individual chapters employ a range of
lenses, including psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial and
queer theory, to analyze work by ThomasMann, Thomas Brussig, Jenny
Erpenbeck, Terezia Mora, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Fatih Akin,
among others. Contributors: Nicholas Courtman, Leanne Dawson, Kyle
Frackman, Sarra Kassem, Lauren Pilcher, John L. Plews, Gary
Schmidt, Cyd Sturgess. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German and Film
Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
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