5: Transnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht’s Imperium and Teju Cole’s Open City

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Contemporary German- Language Literature and Transnationalism 1
5. Part I. Contexts
6. 1: How Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature? 17
7. 2: Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Literary World-Building in the Twenty- First Century 43
8. 3: Affect, Aesthetics, Biopower, and Technology: Political Interventions into Transnationalism 65
9. Part II. Texts
10. 4: “On the Plane to Bishkek or in the Airport of Tashkent”: Transnationalism and Notions of Home in Recent German Literature 87
11. 5: Transnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht’s Imperium and Teju Cole’s Open City 106
12. 6: Writing Travel in the Global Age: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Reworking of Generic Conventions of Travel Literature in Ilija Trojanow’s An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier Kontinenten 125
13. 7: Europe’s Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich’s Die Erdfresserin 144
14. 8: Precarious Sexualities, Neoliberalism, and the Pop-Feminist Novel: Charlotte Roche’s Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann’s Axolotl Roadkill as Transnational Texts 162
15. 9: Dislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf 187
16. 10: Cultural Dichotomies and Lived Transnationalism in Recent Russian-German Narratives 209
17. 11: “Wo geh ich her? . . . Wo komm ich hin?”: Delineating Transnational Spaces in the Work of Juli Zeh 228
18. 12: Transnational Politics in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Sand 247
19. Appendix: Interview with Ilija Trojanow 265
20. Notes on the Contributors 271
21. Index 275