Auteur: Stuart Taberner

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike. After the international success in the 1990s of authors suc …

Explores the performance of aging in the ‘late style’ of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers say that by the year 2060, every seventh person in Germany will be ag …

Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual in the face of extreme suffering. The concentrati …

Investigates the concept of transnationalism and its significance in and for German-language literature and culture. Transnationalism has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and human …

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/1 …

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Edited volume tracing the development of a new generation of German Jewish writers, offering fresh interpretations of individual works, and probing the very concept of ‘German Jewish literature.’ The …

After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impa …

A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the complex question of identity in today’s Germany. This collection of fifteen essays by scholars from the UK, the US, Germany, and Scandin …

New essays on the influence of politics on 20c. German culture, not only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the effects are less obvious. The cultural history of 20th-century Germa …

A lively, comprehensive account of recent developments in German fiction. This book presents a comprehensive, lively account of recent developments in German fiction at a moment when–for the first t …

The first major study of the contemporary German debate over ‘normalization’ and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. This volume fea …

First comprehensive look at how today’s German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Secon …

Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the ”nation” and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future direction of …