1: Language-Bodies: Interpellation and Gender Transition in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Kältere Schichten der Luft and Judith Hermann’s “Sonja”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: German Women’s Writing Beyond the Gender Binary 1
5. 1: Language-Bodies: Interpellation and Gender Transition in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Kältere Schichten der Luft and Judith Hermann’s “Sonja” 18
6. 2: Matrilineal Narrative and the Feminist Family Romance 37
7. 3: The Pitfalls of Constructing a Female Genealogy: Cultural Memory of National Socialism in Recent Family Narratives 54
8. 4: Reckoning with God: Attitudes toward Religion in German- Language Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century 74
9. 5: Muslim Writing, Women’s Writing 95
10. 6: Popfeminism, Ethnicity, and Race in Contemporary Germany: Hatice Akyün’s Popfeminist Autobiographic Works Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße (2005) and Ali zum Dessert (2008) 113
11. 7: The Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray 132
12. 8: The Indictment of Neoliberalism and Communism in the Novels of Katharina Hacker, Nikola Richter, Judith Schalansky, and Julia Schoch 154
13. 9: Sounds of Silence: Rape and Representation in Juli Zeh’s Bosnian Travelogue 175
14. Bibliography 197
15. Contributors 203
16. Index 205