Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic

by Edited by Stuart Taberner

• ISBN13: 9780521860789
• ISBN10: 0521860784
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new Germany that has emerged from the second half of the 1990s onwards and offers the first comprehensive account of key developments in German literary fiction within their social and historical context. Each chapter begins with an overview of a central theme, such as East German writing, West German writing, writing on the Nazi past, writing by women and writing by ethnic minorities. The authors discussed include Günter Grass, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann, Christa Wolf, Christian Kracht and Zafer Senocak. These informative and accessible readings build up a clear picture of the central themes and stylistic concerns of the best writers working in Germany today.

Table of Contents

Introduction Stuart Taberner

Literary debates and the literary market since Unification

Berlin as the literary capital of German Reunification

'GDR literature' in the Berlin Republi

'West German writing' in the Berlin Republic

Literary reflections on '68

Pop literature in the Berlin Republic

Representations of the Nazi past I: 'perpetrators'

Representations of the Nazi past II: 'German wartime suffering'

German literature in the Berlin Republic - writing

Cultural memory and identity formation in the Berlin Republi

Turkish-German fiction since the mid-1990s

German-language writing from Eastern and Central Europe

Writing by Germany's

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