Transitions : emerging women writers in German-language literature / edited by Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye

Additional Titles: Emerging women writers in German-language literature
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
Physical Description: 235 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Heffernan, Valerie and Pye, Gillian

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Series

German monitor ; no. 76.

Contents

Trends and transitions in contemporary German-language writing by women / Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye -- The re-construction and deconstruction of a family narrative: Eva Menasse's Vienna / Daphne Seemann -- No place like home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German past / Linda Shortt -- Perspectives on the borderline: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer / Valerie Heffernan -- Sewing an account of oneself: materiality, femininity, and Germaness in Larissa Boehning's Lichte Stoffe / Emily Jeremiah -- Jenny Erpenbeck and the life of things / Gillian Pye -- New-economy zombies: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht / Elaine Martin -- Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Siobhán Donovan -- Writing on the threshold: memory, language and identity in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht / Deirdre Byrnes -- Politicising desire in Juli Zeh's Spieltrieb / Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter -- Cartographies of self: Ilma Rakusa's autobiographical narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen / Carmel Finnan.

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ISBN

9789042036895 (hd.bd.)
9042036893 (hd.bd.)

Note

This volume developed out of a one-day symposium entitled Emerging women writers, which was held at the National University of Ireland Maynooth in April 2010.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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