Herta Müller
By: edited by Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199654642
Copyright date: 2013
Description: A critical companion to the works of Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009 --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven; title: Beyond Realism: Herta Müller's poetics  -- Katrin Kohl; title: Beyond the Land of green plums: Romanian culture and language in Herta Müller's work  -- Alex Drace-Francis; title: The presence of the unresolved recent past: Herta Müller and the Securitate  -- Valentina Glajar; title: "Stadt und Schädel", "Reisende", and "Verlorene": city, self, and survival in Herta Müller's Reisende auf einem Bein  -- Moray McGowan; title: A mutilated fox fur: examining the contexts of Herta Müller's imagery in Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger  -- Beverley Driver Eddy; title: "Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mire, macht nichts": Herta Müller's Romanian novels  -- Norbert Otto Eke; title: Return from the archipelago: Herta Müller's Atemschaukel as soft memory  -- Brigid Haines; title: "So fremd war das Gebilde": the interaction between visual and verbal in Herta Müller's prose and collages  -- Lyn Marven; title: Gender and the sexual politics of exhange in Herta Müller's prose  -- Karin Bauer; title: Eastward bound: Herta Müller's international reception  -- Wiebke Sievers; title: Herta Müller in translation  -- Jean Boase-Beier; title: Life and literature: autobiography, referentiality, and intertextuality in Herta Müller's work  -- Lyn Marven; title: Famously literary? The Nobel Prize and Herta Müller's authorial body -- Rebecca Braun.