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Author:

Schmidt, Nina, 1986- author.

Title:

The wounded self : writing illness in twenty-first-century German literature / Nina Schmidt.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 235 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Diseases in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
German fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, German--History and criticism.
German prose literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Autofiction, disgust, and trauma: negotiating vulnerable subject positions in Charlotte Roche's Schossgebete -- Looking beyond the self-reflecting the other: staring as a narrative device in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht -- Intertextuality and the transnational in Verena Stefan's Fremdschlafer: writing breast cancer from beyond the border -- Confronting cancer publicly: diary writing in extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf -- Conclusion: "und was dann": recent developments and research desiderata.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

ISBN:

1640140166
9781640140165

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1016941454

LCCN:

2018008448

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)