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The first major study of the contemporary German debate over
"normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural,
political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. This
volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned
international experts on German society, culture, and politics
that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's
postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a
variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy,
economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since
1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become
crucial to Germany'sself-understanding. Despite the apparent
emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that
normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns --
notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central
to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's
efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the
instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major
study in English or German of the impact of the normalization
debate across the range of cultural, political, economic,
intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen
Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst,
Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci,
Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen,
William Collins Donahue, Kathrin Schoedel, Stuart Taberner, Paul
Cooke Stuart Taberner isProfessor of Contemporary German
Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer
in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.
Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Gunter
Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers
say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be
aged eighty or older, and every third person over sixty-five. The
prediction for other Western countries is scarcely different.
Indeed, the aging society is seen by some as a graver threat than
even global warming, with potentially unmanageable tensions
relating to intergenerational relationships, work and benefits, and
flows of people. This book explores the representation and
performance of aging in recent "late-style" German-language
fiction. It situates the authors chosen as case studies -- Gunter
Grass, Ruth Kluger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser -- in their
biographical and social contexts and explores the significance of
their aesthetic figuring of aging for debates raging both in
Germany and internationally. In particular, the book looks at
gender, generations, and trauma and their impact on how writers
"narrativize" aging. Finally, it examines the "timeliness" of these
different representations and late-style performances of aging in
the context of the shift of social, political, and economic power
away from the declining societies of theWest to the ascendant
societies of the East. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary
German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.
This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in
contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to
asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat
post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and
anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether
transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state
and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism. The book proceeds through a
series of close readings of key texts of the last twenty years,
with an emphasis on the most recent works. Authors include Terezia
Mora, Richard Wagner, Olga Grjasnowa, Marlene Streeruwitz, Vladimir
Vertlib, Navid Kermani, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, Ilija
Trojanow, Christian Kracht, and Christa Wolf, representing the
diversity of contemporary German-language writing. Through a
careful process of juxtaposition and differentiation, the
individual chapters demonstrate that writers of both minority and
nonminority backgrounds address transnationalism in ways that
certainly vary but which also often overlap in surprising ways.
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.
Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading
of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader
alike. After the international success in the 1990s of authors such
as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an
impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a
significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and
Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like
Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer,
Alina Bronsky, and Ilja Trojanow, are truly "emerging authors" who
have begun toattract attention. Between them they represent a range
of literatures in German, from women's writing to minority writing
(from Turkish immigrants and Eastern Europe), to "pop literature"
and perspectives on the former GDR and onGermany's Nazi past. This
volume devotes individual essays to fifteen such writers, examining
in detail a major work of each. Translated excerpts from works by
Vladimir Vertlib and Clemens Meyer round out the book, which willbe
of interest not only to academics and students of English and
Comparative Literature in the UK, the US, and beyond, but also to
the general reader, for whom titles of texts and quotations are
translated. Contributors: Lyn Marven, Stuart Taberner, Anke S.
Biendarra, Stephen Brockmann, Rebecca Braun, Frauke Matthes, Brigid
Haines, Julian Preece, Emily Jeremiah, Valerie Heffernan, Barbara
Mennel, Heike Bartel, Kate Roy, Andrew Plowman, Sonja E.Klocke,
Jamie Lee Searle, Katy Derbyshire. Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in
German at the University of Liverpool. Stuart Taberner is Professor
of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds.
Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration
Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity
of the individual in the face of extreme suffering. The
concentration camp at Dachau was the first established by the
Nazis, opened shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. It first
held political prisoners, but later also forced laborers, Soviet
POWs, Jews, and other "undesirables." More than 30,000 deaths were
documented there, with many more unrecorded. In the midst of the
horror, some inmates turned to poetry to provide comfort, to
preserve their sense of humanity, or to document their experiences.
Some were or would later become established poets; others were
prominent politicians or theologians; still others were ordinary
men and women. This anthology contains 68 poems by 32 inmates of
Dachau, in 10 different originallanguages and facing-page English
translation, along with short biographies. A foreword by Walter
Jens and an introduction by Dorothea Heiser from the original
German edition are joined here by a foreword by Stuart Taberner of
theUniversity of Leeds. All the poems, having arisen in the
experience or memory of extreme human suffering, are testimonies to
the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual.
They are also a warning not to forgetthe darkest chapter of history
and a challenge to the future not to allow it to be repeated.
Dorothea Heiser holds an MA from the University of Freiburg. Stuart
Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture,
and Society at the University of Leeds.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in
contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to
asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat
post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and
anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether
transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state
and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism. The book proceeds through a
series of close readings of key texts of the last twenty years,
with an emphasis on the most recent works. Authors include Terezia
Mora, Richard Wagner, Olga Grjasnowa, Marlene Streeruwitz, Vladimir
Vertlib, Navid Kermani, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, Ilija
Trojanow, Christian Kracht, and Christa Wolf, representing the
diversity of contemporary German-language writing. Through a
careful process of juxtaposition and differentiation, the
individual chapters demonstrate that writers of both minority and
nonminority backgrounds address transnationalism in ways that
certainly vary but which also often overlap in surprising ways.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the
complex question of identity in today's Germany. This collection of
fifteen essays by scholars from the UK, the US, Germany, and
Scandinavia revisits the question of German identity. Unlike
previous books on this topic, however, the focus is not exclusively
on national identityin the aftermath of Hitler. Instead, the
concentration is upon the plurality of ethnic, sexual, political,
geographical, and cultural identities in modern Germany, and on
their often fragmentary nature as the country struggles with the
challenges of unification and international developments such as
globalization, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. The
multifaceted nature of German identity demands a variety of
approaches: thus the essays are interdisciplinary, drawing upon
historical, sociological, and literary sources. They are organized
with reference to three distinct sections: Berlin, Political
Formations, and Difference; yet at the same time they illuminate
one another across the volume, offering a nuanced understanding of
the complex question of identity in today's Germany. Topics include
the new self-understanding of the Berlin Republic, Berlin as a
public showcase, the Berlin architecture debate,the Walser-Bubis
debate, fictions of German history and the end of the GDR, the
impact of the German student movement on the FRG, Prime Minister
Biedenkopf and the myth of Saxon identity, women in post-1989
Germany, trains as symbols and the function of the foreign in
post-1989 fiction, identity construction among Turks in Germany and
Turkish self-representation in post-1989 fiction, the state of
German literature today. Contributors: Frank Brunssen, Ulrike
Zitzlsperger, Janet Stewart, Kathrin Schoedel, Karen Leeder, Ingo
Cornils, Peter Thompson, Chris Szejnmann, Sabine Lang, Simon Ward,
Roswitha Skare, Eva Kolinsky, Margaret Littler, Katharina
Gerstenberger, and Stuart Parkes. Stuart Taberner is Lecturer in
German, and Frank Finlay is Professor of German and Head of the
Department of German, both at the University of Leeds, UK.
A lively, comprehensive account of recent developments in German
fiction. This book presents a comprehensive, lively account of
recent developments in German fiction at a moment when--for the
first time in many years--German authors are once again the subject
of international attention and acclaim. It introduces
English-speaking audiences to the complex dilemmas that are shaping
the ways in which Germans are presently defining themselves, their
difficult past, and the new "Berlin Republic." The theme that runs
throughout the volume is the ongoing debate on German
"normalization." In offering a wide-ranging consideration of
contemporary German literature, the book complements a broad
discussion of trends in present-day German politics, society, and
culture with detailed readings of texts by internationally renowned
figures as W. G. Sebald, Gunter Grass, Martin Walser, Marcel Beyer,
Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann, Thomas Brussig, and Bernhard Schlink,
and by newer, emerging writers.Topics include the literary debates
of the 1990s, the literary market and marketing, literary responses
to the former East and West Germany in the age of globalization and
to the Nazi past and portrayals of "ordinary Germans," depictions
of "German wartime suffering," contemporary writing on "Jewish
fates" and efforts to revive the "German-Jewish symbiosis," and
finally, the recent wave of writing about the provinces. Stuart
Taberner is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the
University of Leeds, UK.
Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for
contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity.
From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future
direction of culture, politics and society in a more 'normal',
united country, German literature has become increasingly diverse
and seemingly disparate - at the one extreme, it represents the
attempt to 'reinvent' German traditions, at the other, the
unmistakable influence of Anglo-American forms and pop literature.
A shared concern of almost all of recent German fiction, however,
is the contemporary debate on globalisation, its nature, impact and
consequences for 'local culture'. In its engagement with
globalisation the literature of the Berlin Republic continues the
long-established practice of reflection on what it is to be
'German'. This book investigates literary responses to the
phenomenon of globalisation. The subject is approached from a wide
range of thematic and theoretical perspectives in twelve chapters
which, taken together, also provide an overview of German fiction
from the mid-1990s to the present. The book serves both as an
introduction to contemporary German literature for university
students of German and as a resource for scholars interested in
culture and society in the Berlin Republic.
Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary
German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of
authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme,
form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi
past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and
ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents
the novel in German since 1990 through a set of close readings both
of international bestsellers (including Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring
the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and of less familiar, but
important texts (such as Yade Kara's Selam Berlin). Each novel
discussed in the volume has been chosen on account of its aesthetic
quality, its impact and its representativeness; the authors
featured, among them Nobel Prize winners Gunter Grass, Elfriede
Jelinek and Herta Muller demonstrate the energy and quality of
contemporary writing in German."
Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary
German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of
authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme,
form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi
past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and
ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents
the novel in German since 1990 through a set of close readings both
of international bestsellers (including Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring
the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and of less familiar, but
important texts (such as Yade Kara's Selam Berlin). Each novel
discussed in the volume has been chosen on account of its aesthetic
quality, its impact and its representativeness; the authors
featured, among them Nobel Prize winners Gunter Grass, Elfriede
Jelinek and Herta Muller demonstrate the energy and quality of
contemporary writing in German.
The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone
since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of
contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the
debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new
Germany that has emerged from the second half of the 1990s onwards
and offers the first comprehensive account of key developments in
German literary fiction within their social and historical context.
Each chapter begins with an overview of a central theme, such as
East German writing, West German writing, writing on the Nazi past,
writing by women and writing by ethnic minorities. The authors
discussed include Gunter Grass, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann,
Christa Wolf, Christian Kracht and Zafer Senocak. These informative
and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central
themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in
Germany today.
Gunter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most
successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his
recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless
social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped
post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold
War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion
offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of
media in which he works, including literature, television and
visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's
literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his
work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his
early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and
lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in
order to understand Grass and his individual works.
The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone
since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of
contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the
debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new
Germany that has emerged from the second half of the 1990s onwards
and offers the first comprehensive account of key developments in
German literary fiction within their social and historical context.
Each chapter begins with an overview of a central theme, such as
East German writing, West German writing, writing on the Nazi past,
writing by women and writing by ethnic minorities. The authors
discussed include Gunter Grass, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann,
Christa Wolf, Christian Kracht and Zafer Senocak. These informative
and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central
themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in
Germany today.
Gunter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most
successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his
recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless
social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped
post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold
War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion
offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of
media in which he works, including literature, television and
visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's
literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his
work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his
early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and
lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in
order to understand Grass and his individual works.
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