Transitions :
Transitions : emerging women writers in German-language literature /
edited by Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye.
- 1 online resource (235 pages).
- German monitor ; no. 76 .
International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trends and transitions in contemporary German-language writing by women / The re-construction and deconstruction of a family narrative: Eva Menasse's Vienna / No place like home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German past / Perspectives on the borderline: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer / Sewing an account of oneself: materiality, femininity, and Germaness in Larissa Boehning's Lichte Stoffe / Jenny Erpenbeck and the life of things / New-economy zombies: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht / Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Writing on the threshold: memory, language and identity in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht / Politicising desire in Juli Zeh's Spieltrieb / Cartographies of self: Ilma Rakusa's autobiographical narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen / Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye -- Daphne Seemann -- Linda Shortt -- Valerie Heffernan -- Emily Jeremiah -- Gillian Pye -- Elaine Martin -- Siobhan Donovan -- Deirdre Byrnes -- Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter -- Carmel Finnan.
9789401209489 (e-book)
Women authors, German--History and criticism.--21st century
German literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic books.
PT167 / .T73 2013eb
International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trends and transitions in contemporary German-language writing by women / The re-construction and deconstruction of a family narrative: Eva Menasse's Vienna / No place like home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German past / Perspectives on the borderline: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer / Sewing an account of oneself: materiality, femininity, and Germaness in Larissa Boehning's Lichte Stoffe / Jenny Erpenbeck and the life of things / New-economy zombies: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht / Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Writing on the threshold: memory, language and identity in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht / Politicising desire in Juli Zeh's Spieltrieb / Cartographies of self: Ilma Rakusa's autobiographical narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen / Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye -- Daphne Seemann -- Linda Shortt -- Valerie Heffernan -- Emily Jeremiah -- Gillian Pye -- Elaine Martin -- Siobhan Donovan -- Deirdre Byrnes -- Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter -- Carmel Finnan.
9789401209489 (e-book)
Women authors, German--History and criticism.--21st century
German literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic books.
PT167 / .T73 2013eb