Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit - Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

List of contents

Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke - Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important
German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the Holocaust
A Future History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten
Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach
Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen
The Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West Germany
Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary Germany
Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest
The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences Through the Eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
The Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage Identity
Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, Vibeke Rützou Petersen

Summary

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Bruce Campbell, Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther Pal, Alison Guenther-Pal, Vibeke Rutzou Petersen
• Assisted by: Bruce Bruce Campbell (Editor), Bruce (Customer) Bruce Campbell (Editor), Bruce B. Campbell (Editor), Alison Guenther-Pal (Editor), Alison (Customer) Guenther-Pal (Editor), Vibeke Rutzou Petersen (Editor), Vibeke Rützou Petersen (Editor), Vibeke Rutzou (Customer) Petersen (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9781571135933
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-593-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies