German literature of the 1990s and beyond
Subtitle: normalization and the Berlin Republic
By: Stuart Taberner.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
Description: "This book presents the first comprehensive account of German literature from the early 1990s to the present. It introduces an English-speaking audience to the complex dilemmas that are shaping the ways in which Germans are presently defining themselves, their difficult past, and the new "Berlin Republic." The theme that runs throughout the volume is the ongoing debate on German "normalization." In offering a wide-ranging consideration of contemporary German literature, the book complements a broad discussion of trends in present-day German politics, society, and culture with detailed readings of exemplary texts by such internationally renowned figures as W. G. Sebald, Gunter Grass, Martin Walser, Marcel Beyer, Ingo Schulze, Judith Hermann, Thomas Brussig, and Bernhard Schlink, as well as by newer, emerging writers."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary debates since unification : "European" modernism or "American" pop?; title: Literature in the East; title: Literature in the West; title: Confronting the Nazi past I :  "Political correctness"; title: Confronting the Nazi past II : German perpetrators or German victims?; title: A German-Jewish symbiosis?; title: From the Province to Berlin.