[T]his anthology capably argues for the inclusion of non-canonical texts in contemporary German Studies scholarship. [It] open[s] the door for future scholarly investigation of these primary texts and many others that have traditionally belonged to categories of Trivialliteratur or pulp ?ction. The editors and contributors succeeded in their aim to break with that tradition and to inaugurate a new one.

• Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke - Genre Fiction and Why It Is ImportantGerman Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the HolocaustA Future History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und GigantenEco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas EschbachMurder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur MühlenThe Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West GermanyJustice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary GermanyDetecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and SteinfestThe Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences Through the Eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene WillfüerThe Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage IdentityClose the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's FaserlandBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[T]his anthology capably argues for the inclusion of non-canonical texts in contemporary German Studies scholarship. [It] open[s] the door for future scholarly investigation of these primary texts and many others that have traditionally belonged to categories of Trivialliteratur or pulp ?ction. The editors and contributors succeeded in their aim to break with that tradition and to inaugurate a new one.

• Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke - Genre Fiction and Why It Is ImportantGerman Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the HolocaustA Future History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und GigantenEco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas EschbachMurder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur MühlenThe Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West GermanyJustice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary GermanyDetecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and SteinfestThe Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences Through the Eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene WillfüerThe Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage IdentityClose the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's FaserlandBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex