"The foundation for this volume was laid at a three-day-long seminar workshop entitled "Transnationalisms: Sexualities, Fantasies, and the World Beyond" that took place at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Denver, Colorado, October 3-6, 2013. Scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe working in different fields and disciplines came together to debate fundamental questions regarding the form, concerns, and impact of German-language transnational literature today." -- Acknowledgments Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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