Hester Baer & Alexandra Merley Stewart 
German Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century [PDF ebook] 

Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women’s literature has been conceived.






What is the status of women’s writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which 'women’s literature’ has been conceived. With aneye to the literary and feminist legacy of authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors treat the works of many of contemporary Germany’s most significant literary voices, including Hatice Akyün, Sibylle Berg, Thea Dorn, Tanja Dückers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Rávic Strubel — authors who, through their writing or their roles in the media, engage with questionsof what it means to be a woman writer in twenty-first-century Germany.


Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill, Lindsay Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone.


Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Associate Professor of German at the University of Portland.

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Introduction: German Women’s Writing Beyond the Gender Binary – Hester Baer and Alexandra Merley Hill

Language-Bodies: Interpellation and Gender Transition in Antje Rávic Strubel’s
Kältere Schichten der Luft and Judith Hermann’s 'Sonja’ – Necia Chronister

Matrilineal Narrative and the Feminist Family Romance – Valerie Heffernan

The Pitfalls of Constructing a Female Genealogy: Cultural Memory of National Socialism in Recent Family Narratives – Katherine Stone

Reckoning with God: Attitudes toward Religion in German-Language Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century – Sheridan Marshall

Muslim Writing, Women’s Writing – Lindsay Lawton

Popfeminism, Ethnicity, and Race in Contemporary Germany: Hatice Akyün’s Popfeminist Autobiographic Works
Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße (2005) and
Ali zum Dessert (2008) – Mihaela Petrescu

The Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray – Carrie Smith-Prei

The Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray – Maria Stehle

The Indictment of Neoliberalism and Communism in the Novels of Katharina Hacker, Nikola Richter, Judith Schalansky, and Julia Schoch – Helga Druxes

Sounds of Silence: Rape and Representation in Juli Zeh’s Bosnian Travelogue – Jill Suzanne Smith

Bibliography

Notes on the Contributors

Index

O autorze

MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.