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Informationen zum Autor Stuart Taberner is Professor of German at the University of Leeds. Klappentext Explores the diversity of the post-1990 novel in German through readings of international bestsellers and less familiar texts. '... a volume for which one would wish a readership as attentive as its contributors are perspicacious.' David Midgley, Modern Language Review Zusammenfassung These essays explore the diversity of the contemporary novel in German via close readings of international bestsellers (Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz) and less familiar texts. Key themes that emerge include the Nazi past! transnationalism! globalisation! migration! religion and ethnicity! gender and sexuality! and identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the novel in German since 1990 Stuart Taberner; 2. Robert Schindel's Gebürtig (Born-Where) Helmut Schmitz; 3. Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld (Too Far Afield) Rebecca Braun; 4. Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us) Anna Saunders; 5. Christa Wolf's Medea: Stimmen (Medea: A Modern Retelling) Georgina Paul; 6. Zafer ¿enocak's Gefährliche Verwandschaft (Perilous Kinship) Moray McGowan; 7. Monika Maron's Endmoränen (End Moraines) Katharina Gerstenberger; 8. Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen (A Gushing Fountain) Kathrin Schödel; 9. Michael Kleeberg's Ein Garten im Norden (A Garden in the North) Stephen Brockmann; 10. Christian Kracht's Faserland (Frayed-Land) Julian Preece; 11. Elfriede Jelinek's Gier (Greed) Helen Finch; 12. Karen Duve's Dies ist kein Liebeslied (This is Not a Love-Song) Alison Lewis; 13. Herta Müller's Herztier (The Land of Green Plums) Lyn Marven; 14. W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz Mary Cosgove; 15. Walter Kempowski's Alles umsonst (All for Nothing) Karina Berger; 16. F. C. Delius's Mein Jahr als Mörder (My Year as a Murderer) Anne Fuchs; 17. Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin Petra Fachinger; 18. Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) Stuart Taberner; 19. Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion) Monika Shafi; Works cited; Index....
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Stuart Taberner is Professor of German at the University of Leeds.
