Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke— Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke— Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important 1
5. Part I. Science Fiction and Dystopia
6. 1: German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the Holocaust 29
7. 2: A Future-History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin’s Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten 49
8. 3: Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach 67
9. Part II. Detection and Crime
10. 4: Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen 89
11. 5: The Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West Germany 117
12. 6: Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary Germany 133
13. 7: Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest 152
14. Part III. Versions of the “I”: Pop Literatures on the Way to the Self
15. 8: The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences through the Eyes of Vicki Baum’s stud. chem. Helene Willfüer 181
16. 9: The Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage Identity 207
17. 10: Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht’s Faserland 227
18. Bibliography 243
19. Notes on the Contributors 277
20. Index 279