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CALL FOR PAPERS
“The Eastern European Turn in Contemporary German-Language Literature”
Edited by Brigid Haines and Anca Luca Holden

Completed research articles are requested on the subject of contemporary
German-language literature by authors from and/or of Eastern European
background for a proposed Special Issue of German Life and Letters, to
appear in 2014/15.
While significant attention has been given to literature in German
written 'under the sign of Turkish presence', (Leslie Adelson, The
Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature), recent fiction in German
by writers from Eastern Europe is making a significant contribution to
'transforming German literatures from within and contributing to a
post-Cold War remapping of Europe', (Brigid Haines, 'The Eastern Turn in
Contemporary German Swiss and Austrian Literature', 2008). While the
majority of recent winners of the Chamisso Preis for 'deutsch schreibende
Autoren nichtdeutscher Muttersprache' have belonged to this category, the
award of this year's Büchner Prize to Sybille Lewitscharoff, of the
Schweizer Buchpreis in 2011 to Catalin Dorian Florescu and of the
Deutscher Buchpreis in 2010 to Melinda Nadj Abonji indicates their
increasingly mainstream position. Writers such as Terézia Mora, Saša
Stanišić and Ilija Trojanow have wide international readerships, while
others such as Wladimir Kaminer and Richard Wagner are sought after as
commentators on the German and European cultural and political scene.
This volume aims to break new ground in mapping this important area. As
well as articles on individual authors, wider topics could include:
• 'German' and 'European' cultural identity
•  transnationalism
• post-communist transformations of Eastern and Western Europe
• cultural memory
• (im)migration
• travel
• space
• mobility
• globalization
• language
New theoretical approaches to these and other topics are welcome.

Completed articles in English of approximately 7-8000 words should be
sent to both Brigid Haines
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Best wishes,

Brigid and Anca 

 

Dr Brigid Haines

Reader in German and PGT Director, College of Arts and Humanities / Darllenydd mewn Almaeneg a Chyfarwyddwr PGT, Coleg y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau

College of Arts and Humanities / Coleg y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau

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