Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: “Violence Elsewhere” and the Phantasmatic Scene of “Distant Suffering”: Intersections of Emotional and Spatial Distance 18
7. 2: War of Words/Words of War: The “Normalization” of War in the Context of Germany’s War in Afghanistan (2001–21) 46
8. 3: There Is No “Elsewhere”: Scales of Complicity and Implication in the Contemporary German Family Novel 70
9. 4: German Engagement with Iraqi Conflict in Sherko Fatah’s Das dunkle Schiff (2008; The Dark Ship, 2015) and Der letzte Ort (The Last Place, 2014) 93
10. 5: Overview Effects: Violence and Planetarity in Durs Grünbein’s Cyrano oder Die Rückkehr vom Mond (Cyrano; or, The Return from the Moon, 2014) 114
11. 6: Violence “Elsewhere, within Here”: Artistic Engagement in Armenian Remembrance at “Location Germany” 138
12. 7: Encountering Violence Elsewhere at Home in Clemens Meyer’s Short- Story Collection Die stillen Trabanten (2017; Dark Satellites, 2020) 166
13. 8: The Entangled Mess of the Embodied Elsewhere in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018) 186
14. 9: Utopias of Restorative Justice: Speculative Fiction, Gender, and Violence in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum (2021; Ada’s Realm, 2023) 209
15. Selected Bibliography 233
16. Note on the Contributors 245
17. Index 249