Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Contemporary German- Language Illness Writing as Literature; Analyzing Narrative Strategies, Aesthetic Forms, and Experimentations with Genre through the Lens of Disability Theory 1
5. 1: Autofiction, Disgust, and Trauma: Negotiating Vulnerable Subject Positions in Charlotte Roche’s Schoßgebete (2011) 41
6. 2: Looking Beyond the Self—Reflecting the Other: Staring as a Narrative Device in Kathrin Schmidt’s Du stirbst nicht (2009) 67
7. 3: Intertextuality and the Transnational in Verena Stefan’s Fremdschläfer (2007): Writing Breast Cancer from beyond the Border 92
8. 4: Confronting Cancer Publicly: Diary Writing in Extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf 114
9. Conclusion: “Und was dann”; Recent Developments and Research Desiderata 159
10. Notes 167
11. Bibliography 209
12. Index 229