Grand Valley State University

Transnationalism in contemporary German-language literature, edited by Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

Transnationalism in contemporary German-language literature

904081564

edited by Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

"Transnationalism" has become a key term reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression, and it is also becoming more and more a "moving medium" that creates a transnational space by circulating around the world, both reflecting on the reality of transnationalism and participating in it. This volume refines our understanding of transnationalism both as a contemporary reality and as a concept and an analytical tool --, Provided by publisher

Introduction: Contemporary German-language literature and transnationalism / Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner -- Contexts. How does transnationalism redefine contemporary literature? / Elisabeth Herrmann -- Transnationalism and cosmopolitanism: literary world-building in the twenty-first century / Stuart Taberner -- Affect, aesthetics, biopower, and technology: political interventions into transnationalism / Carrie Smith-Prei -- Texts. "On the plane to Bishkek or in the airport of Tashkent": transnationalism and notions of home in recent German literature / Katharina Gerstenberger -- Transnationalism, colonial loops, and the vicissitudes of cosmopolitan affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open City / Claudia Breger -- 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 / Christina Kraenzle -- Europe's invisible ghettos: transnationalism and neoliberal capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin / Maria Mayr -- Precarious sexualities, neoliberalism, and the pop-feminist novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as transnational texts / Hester Baer -- Dislocation, multiplicity, and transformation: posttransnationalism in Antje Ravic Strubel's Kaltere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf / Faye Stewart -- Cultural dichotomies and lived transnationalism in recent Russian-German narratives / Anke S. Biendarra -- "Wo geh ich her? ... wo komm ich hin?": delineating transnational spaces in the work of Juli Zeh / Lars Richter -- Transnational politics in Friedrich Dürrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand / Tanja Nusser -- Appendix: Interview with Ilija Trojanow / Elisabeth Herrmann and Carrie Smith-Prei