14 Small Stories: The Novels of Martina Hefter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations: An Introduction 1
5. I Trends: Literature in the Public Sphere
6. Introduction 13
7. 1 The Literary Public Sphere: A Case for German Particularity? 17
8. 2 Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: An Interview with Josef Joffe 34
9. 3 “Literatur findet . . . nicht nur auf Papier statt” The Eventization of Literature in Hamburg 39
10. 4 The Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and the Making of an Author: Tobias Hülswitt Hits the Road for Literature and Ends Up a Writer 56
11. II Traditions: History, Memory, and Narrative
12. Introduction 73
13. 5 Degrees of History in Contemporary German Narratives 78
14. 6 Luftkrieg Revisited: Contemporary Responses to the Allied Bombings of German Cities 99
15. 7 An Aesthetics of Memory for Third-Generation Germans: Tanja Dückers’s Himmelskörper 119
16. 8 The Continuation of Countermemory: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde 135
17. III Transitions: Form and Performance after 1989
18. Introduction 153
19. 9 A Path of Poetic Potentials: Coordinates of German Lyric Identity in the Poetry of Zafer Şenocak 158
20. 10 Performing GDR in Poetry? The Literary Signifi cance of “East German” Poetry in Unifi ed Germany 178
21. 11 Feridun Zaimoglu’s Performance of Gender and Authorship 196
22. IV Transformations: Women Writing in the New Century
23. Introduction 215
24. 12 From Frauenliteratur to Frauenliteraturbetrieb: Marketing Literature to German Women in the Twenty-First Century 220
25. 13 Social Alienation and Gendered Surveillance: Julia Franck Observes Post-Wende Society 237
26. 14 Small Stories: The Novels of Martina Hefter 253
27. 15 The Young Author as Public Intellectual: The Case of Juli Zeh 268
28. Contributors 285
29. Index 289