German Literature In The Age Of Globalisation

by Taberner, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781902459516
• ISBN10: 1902459512
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future direction of culture, politics and society in a more 'normal', united

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: German literature in the age of globalisation	1	(24)
Stuart Taberner
East German writing in the age of globalisation	25	(22)
Paul Cooke
`Was will ich denn als Westdeutscher erzahlen?': The `old' West and globalisation in recent German prose	47	(20)
Andrew Plowman
Germany as background: global concerns in recent women's writing in German	67	(22)
Beth Linklater
The German province in the age of globalisation: Botho Strauß, Arnold Stadler and Hans-Ulrich Treichel	89	(22)
Stuart Taberner
A matter of perspective: prose debuts in contemporary German literature	111	(16)
Dieter Stolz
Not top of the pops? - Martin Walser's writing since 1990	127	(18)
Stuart Parkes
Denouncing globalisation: Ingo Schramm's Fitchers Blau	145	(24)
Helmut Schmitz
German pop literature and cultural globalisation	169	(20)
Thomas Ernst
`Dann ware Deutschland wie das Wort Neckarrauen': surface, superficiality and globalisation in Christian Kracht's Faserland	189	(20)
Frank Finlay
Writing by ethnic minorities in the age of globalisation	209	(20)
Katharina Gerstenberger
The globalisation of memory and the rediscovery of German suffering	229	(18)
Bill Niven
Index	247