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

Contributor(s): Series: German monitor ; no. 76Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789042036895 (hd.bd.)
  • 9042036893 (hd.bd.)
  • 9789401209489 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transitions : emerging women writers in German-language literature.LOC classification:
  • PT167 .T73 2013eb
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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 Rumloggla's wir schlafen nicht / Elaine Martin -- Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Siobhan 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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International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Rumloggla's wir schlafen nicht / Elaine Martin -- Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel / Siobhan 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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