Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publication(s)
in German Studies:
* Pushing at Boundaries
Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to
Jenny Erpenbeck
Edited by Heike Bartel & Elizabeth Boa
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 187 pp. (German Monitor 64)
ISBN-10: 90-420-2051-2 Paper € 38,- / US $ 49.-
ISBN-13 978-90-420-2051-1
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=GM+64
More info:
Pushing at Boundaries presents approaches to women writers who have
recently had a big impact in shaping the contemporary literary field in
Germany. The opening chapters offer the first extensive consideration of
Karen Duve’s work, including an excerpt from her latest novel, the romance
parody Die entführte Prinzessin, a fascinating commentary by her
translator Anthea Bell, and essays on her acclaimed novel Regenroman, her
subversive take on West German youth culture in the 1980s in Dies ist kein
Liebeslied, and explorations of the witty echoes of fairy tales and myths
in all her novels and stories. Other writers compared with Duve or
discussed independently include Anne Duden, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck,
Michael Fritz, Kerstin Hensel, Julia Schoch, Malin Schwerdtfeger, and
Maike Wetzel. A final essay explores Berlin, as capital city and urban
jungle, in recent novels by Sibylle Berg, Tanja Dückers, Alexa Hennig von
Lange, Judith Hermann, Unda Hörner, Inka Parei, Kathrin Röggla, Antje
Stelling, and Antje Rávic Strubel.
Readers will find many cross-connections and contrasts reflecting the
heterogeneous and often conflict-ridden culture in Germany today. Topics
include the subversion of gender stereotypes; the merging of 'high'
and 'low' culture; the invasion of cultivated spheres by 'wild' nature;
post-Wende border crossings between East and West; and the highly charged
relationship between lust and disgust.
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