German Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century (EPDF) von Hester Baer

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.

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'sKältere 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 WorksEinmal Hans mit scharfer Soße (2005) andAli 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