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German Literature in the Age of Globalisation
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 country, German literature has become increasingly diverse and seemingly disparate - at the one extreme, it represents the attempt to 'reinvent' German traditions, at the other, the unmistakable influence of Anglo-American forms and pop literature. A shared concern of almost all of recent German fiction, however, is the contemporary debate on globalisation, its nature, impact and consequences for 'local culture'. In its engagement with globalisation the literature of the Berlin Republic continues the long-established practice of reflection on what it is to be 'German'. This book investigates literary responses to the phenomenon of globalisation. The subject is approached from a wide range of thematic and theoretical perspectives in twelve chapters which, taken together, also provide an overview of German fiction from the mid-1990s to the present. The book serves both as an introduction to contemporary German literature for university students of German and as a resource for scholars interested in culture and society in the Berlin Republic.
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The novel in German since 1990
\"Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents the novel in German since 1990 through a set of close readings both of international bestsellers (including Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and of less familiar, but important texts (such as Yade; Kara's Selam Berlin). Each novel discussed in the volume has been chosen on account of its aesthetic quality, its impact and its representativeness; the authors featured, among them Nobel Prize winners Günter Grass, Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller demonstrate the energy and quality of contemporary writing in German\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Novel in German since 1990
Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents the novel in German since 1990 through a set of close readings both of international bestsellers (including Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and of less familiar, but important texts (such as Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin). Each novel discussed in the volume has been chosen on account of its aesthetic quality, its impact and its representativeness; the authors featured, among them Nobel Prize winners Günter Grass, Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller demonstrate the energy and quality of contemporary writing in German.
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Transnationalism and German-language literature in the twenty-first century
This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism. The book proceeds through a series of close readings of key texts of the last twenty years, with an emphasis on the most recent works. Authors include Terézia Mora, Richard Wagner, Olga Grjasnowa, Marlene Streeruwitz, Vladimir Vertlib, Navid Kermani, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, Ilija Trojanow, Christian Kracht, and Christa Wolf, representing the diversity of contemporary German-language writing. Through a careful process of juxtaposition and differentiation, the individual chapters demonstrate that writers of both minority and nonminority backgrounds address transnationalism in ways that certainly vary but which also often overlap in surprising ways.
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Rearticulations of German Jewish Identity in Adriana Altaras's titos brille and Dmitrij Kapitelman's Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters
abstarct This article examines the emergence of new forms of German Jewish identity after unification, the arrival of over 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union, and the fading of the generation of Holocaust survivors. It is argued that Adriana Altaras's titos brille (2015) and Dmitrij Kapitelman's Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters (2016) suggest a spectrum of potential actualizations of German Jewish identity along three related axes: continuity↔innovation; apartness↔normalization; and particularity↔cosmopolitanism. More generally, the article proposes that these axes might structure a comprehensive examination of the growing corpus of fiction by authors with a Jewish background to which the two novels belong.
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Redemption through Sin: Benjamin Stein's Das Alphabet des Rabbi Löw and the Heretical Dynamism of Contemporary German Jewish Literature and Identity
This article examines Benjamin Stein's
Das Alphabet des Rabbi Löw
(2014; first published as
Das Alphabet des Juda Liva
in 1995) as an intervention in current debates about the emerging pluralism of German Jewish identity. It is argued that esoteric allusions to Jewish mysticism symbolically repair the ruptures in Jewish genealogies and that intertextual references to German (Jewish) literary traditions hint specifically at a revival of German Jewish identity. Above all, however, allusions to the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi suggest the heretical dynamism of this identity and position Juda Liva/Rabbi Löw at the centre of contemporary German Jewish literature.
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German Literature of the 1990s and Beyond
This book presents a comprehensive, lively account of recent developments in German fiction at a moment when-for the first time in many years-German authors are once again the subject of international attention and acclaim. It introduces English-speaking audiences to the complex dilemmas that are shaping the ways in which Germans are presently defining themselves, their difficult past, and the new 'Berlin Republic.' The theme that runs throughout the volume is the ongoing debate on German 'normalization.' In offering a wide-ranging consideration of contemporary German literature, the book complements a broad discussion of trends in present-day German politics, society, and culture with detailed readings of texts by internationally renowned figures as W. G. Sebald, Günter Grass, Martin Walser, Marcel Beyer, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann, Thomas Brussig, and Bernhard Schlink, and by newer, emerging writers. Topics include the literary debates of the 1990s, the literary market and marketing, literary responses to the former East and West Germany in the age of globalization and to the Nazi past and portrayals of 'ordinary Germans,' depictions of 'German wartime suffering,' contemporary writing on 'Jewish fates' and efforts to revive the 'German-Jewish symbiosis,' and finally, the recent wave of writing about the provinces. Stuart Taberner is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Leeds, UK.
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Towards a ‘Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism’: Rethinking Solidarity with Refugees in Olga Grjasnowa's Gott ist nicht schüchtern
This article examines Olga Grjasnowa's depiction of the 2015 'refugee crisis' in
Gott ist nicht schüchtern
(2017), focusing on how this German-language writer of Russian Jewish extraction offers a nuanced understanding of refugees’ motives for flight. Further to this, the article explores the novel's implied critique of cosmopolitan memory and multidirectional memory (Levy/Sznaider; Rothberg) as an underpinning of contemporary humanitarian activism and empathy with refugees. Gott ist nicht schüchtern instead promotes a ‘pragmatic cosmopolitanism’ that in harking back to states’ obligations under the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention recalls Hannah Arendt and present-day political philosophers such as Seyla Benhabib.
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