German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century

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German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by: Hester Baer and Alexandra Merley Stewart
With contributions by: Alexandra Merley Stewart , C. Smith-Prei / E. C. Smith-Prei / E. Herrmann , Helga Helga Druxes , Hester Baer , Jill Suzanne Smith , Katherine Bruce , Lindsay Lawton , Maria Stehle , Mihaela Petrescu , Necia Chronister , Sheridan Marshall and Valerie Heffernan

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 161 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.

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Baer Hester :

HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland.Stewart Alexandra Merley :

ALEXANDRA MERLEY STEWART (formerly Alexandra Merley Hill) is Professor of German and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland.Stewart Alexandra Merley :

ALEXANDRA MERLEY STEWART (formerly Alexandra Merley Hill) is Professor of German and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland.Baer Hester :

HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland.Smith Jill Suzanne :

JILL SUZANNE SMITH is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.Bruce Katherine :

Katherine Stone is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of WarwickStehle Maria :

MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Literary Studies German Literature German Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: German Women’s Writing Beyond the Gender Binary Hester Baer and Alexandra Merley Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1: Language-Bodies: Interpellation and Gender Transition in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Kältere Schichten der Luft and Judith Hermann’s “Sonja” Necia Chronister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2: Matrilineal Narrative and the Feminist Family Romance Valerie Heffernan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3: The Pitfalls of Constructing a Female Genealogy: Cultural Memory of National Socialism in Recent Family Narratives Katherine Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4: Reckoning with God: Attitudes toward Religion in German- Language Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century Sheridan Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5: Muslim Writing, Women’s Writing Lindsay Lawton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
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) Mihaela Petrescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7: The Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray Carrie Smith-Prei and Maria Stehle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
8: The Indictment of Neoliberalism and Communism in the Novels of Katharina Hacker, Nikola Richter, Judith Schalansky, and Julia Schoch Helga Druxes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
9: Sounds of Silence: Rape and Representation in Juli Zeh’s Bosnian Travelogue Jill Suzanne Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205

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9781782044864

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