STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

[D]elivers a timely contribution to the development of German literary studies . . . . [A] balanced and critical summation . . . . [A] versatile sourcebook for future embarkations into transnational literature.

• Introduction: Contemporary German-Language Literature and TransnationalismHow Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature?Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Literary World-Building in the Twenty-First CenturyAffect, Aesthetics, Biopower, and Technology: Political Interventions into Transnationalism"On the Plane to Bishkek or in the Airport of Tashkent": Transnationalism and Notions of Home in Recent German LiteratureTransnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open CityWriting Travel in the Global Age: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Reworking of Generic Conventions of Travel Literature in Ilija Trojanow's An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier KontinentenEurope's Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die ErdfresserinPrecarious Sexualities, Neoliberalism, and the Pop-Feminist Novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as Transnational TextsDislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom DorfCultural Dichotomies and Lived Transnationalism in Recent Russian-German Narratives"Wo geh ich her? . . . Wo komm ich hin?": Delineating Transnational Spaces in the Work of Juli ZehTransnational Politics in Friedrich Du?rrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's SandAppendix: Interview with Ilija TrojanowNotes on the ContributorsIndex

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

[D]elivers a timely contribution to the development of German literary studies . . . . [A] balanced and critical summation . . . . [A] versatile sourcebook for future embarkations into transnational literature.

• Introduction: Contemporary German-Language Literature and TransnationalismHow Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature?Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Literary World-Building in the Twenty-First CenturyAffect, Aesthetics, Biopower, and Technology: Political Interventions into Transnationalism"On the Plane to Bishkek or in the Airport of Tashkent": Transnationalism and Notions of Home in Recent German LiteratureTransnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open CityWriting Travel in the Global Age: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Reworking of Generic Conventions of Travel Literature in Ilija Trojanow's An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier KontinentenEurope's Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die ErdfresserinPrecarious Sexualities, Neoliberalism, and the Pop-Feminist Novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as Transnational TextsDislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom DorfCultural Dichotomies and Lived Transnationalism in Recent Russian-German Narratives"Wo geh ich her? . . . Wo komm ich hin?": Delineating Transnational Spaces in the Work of Juli ZehTransnational Politics in Friedrich Du?rrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's SandAppendix: Interview with Ilija TrojanowNotes on the ContributorsIndex

STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

[D]elivers a timely contribution to the development of German literary studies . . . . [A] balanced and critical summation . . . . [A] versatile sourcebook for future embarkations into transnational literature.

• Introduction: Contemporary German-Language Literature and TransnationalismHow Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature?Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Literary World-Building in the Twenty-First CenturyAffect, Aesthetics, Biopower, and Technology: Political Interventions into Transnationalism"On the Plane to Bishkek or in the Airport of Tashkent": Transnationalism and Notions of Home in Recent German LiteratureTransnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open CityWriting Travel in the Global Age: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Reworking of Generic Conventions of Travel Literature in Ilija Trojanow's An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier KontinentenEurope's Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die ErdfresserinPrecarious Sexualities, Neoliberalism, and the Pop-Feminist Novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as Transnational TextsDislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom DorfCultural Dichotomies and Lived Transnationalism in Recent Russian-German Narratives"Wo geh ich her? . . . Wo komm ich hin?": Delineating Transnational Spaces in the Work of Juli ZehTransnational Politics in Friedrich Du?rrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's SandAppendix: Interview with Ilija TrojanowNotes on the ContributorsIndex