Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century (Web PDF) von Lyn Marven

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.

Introduction: New German-Language Writing since the Turn of the Millennium - Lyn Marven
Ulrike Draesner, Mitgift: On Bodies and Beauty - Lyn Marven
Vladimir Vertlib, Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur: Performing Jewishness in the New Germany - Stuart Taberner
Terézia Mora, Alle Tage: Transnational Traumas - Anke S. Biendarra
Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb: Contemporary Nihilism - Stephen Brockmann
Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt: Measuring Celebrity through the Ages - Rebecca Braun
Clemens Meyer, Als wir träumten: Fighting "Like a Man"in Leipzig's East - Frauke Matthes
Sasa Stanisic', Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert: Reinscribing Bosnia, or: Sad Things, Positively - Brigid Haines
Ilija Trojanow, Der Weltensammler: Separate Bodies, or: An Account of Intercultural Failure - Julian Preece
Sibylle Berg, Die Fahrt: Literature, Germanness, andGlobalization - Emily Jeremiah
Julia Franck, Die Mittagsfrau: Historia Matria and Matrilineal Narrative - Valerie Heffernan
Alina Bronsky, Scherbenpark: Global Ghetto Girl - Barbara Mennel
Karen Duve, Taxi: Of Alpha Males, Apes, Altenberg, and Driving in the City - Heike Bartel
Yadé Kara, Cafe Cyprus: New Territory? - Kate Roy
Sven Regener, Der kleine Bruder: Reinventing Kreuzberg - Andrew Plowman
Kathrin Schmidt, Du stirbst nicht: A Woman's Quest forAgency - Sonja Klocke
Appendices: Samples of Contemporary German-LanguageNovels in Translation
Notes on the Contributors
Index