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

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 such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and Ilja Trojanow, are truly "emerging authors" who have begun toattract attention. Between them they represent a range of literatures in German, from women's writing to minority writing (from Turkish immigrants and Eastern Europe), to "pop literature" and perspectives on the former GDR and onGermany's Nazi past.
This volume devotes individual essays to fifteen such writers, examining in detail a major work of each. Translated excerpts from works by Vladimir Vertlib and Clemens Meyer round out the book, which willbe of interest not only to academics and students of English and Comparative Literature in the UK, the US, and beyond, but also to the general reader, for whom titles of texts and quotations are translated.

Contributors: Lyn Marven, Stuart Taberner, Anke S. Biendarra, Stephen Brockmann, Rebecca Braun, Frauke Matthes, Brigid Haines, Julian Preece, Emily Jeremiah, Valerie Heffernan, Barbara Mennel, Heike Bartel, Kate Roy, Andrew Plowman, Sonja E.Klocke, Jamie Lee Searle, Katy Derbyshire.

Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.

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