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Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed for Germany over the last two decades have been manifested and reimagined in aesthetic production. Analyses of the literary marketplace and public debates illuminate the more material sides of this development. The study also analyzes the ways in which German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975, such as Chr. Kracht, Th. Meinecke, J. Hermann, S. Berg, F. Illies, K. Röggla, J. v. Düffel, and G. Hens, respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these have influenced notions of authorship and literary aesthetics. It shows how narratives dealing with the neoliberal work world, global travel, and the aftermath of 09/11 implicitly comment on contemporary debates on globalization, its socio-economic nature, and the impact for local culture. By presenting a literary history of the present, Germans Going Global deepens the reader’s understanding of contemporary Germany and its cultural production.

Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed for Germany over the last two decades have been manifested and reimagined in aesthetic production. Analyses of the literary marketplace and public debates illuminate the more material sides of this development. The study also analyzes the ways in which German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975, such as Chr. Kracht, Th. Meinecke, J. Hermann, S. Berg, F. Illies, K. Röggla, J. v. Düffel, and G. Hens, respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these have influenced notions of authorship and literary aesthetics. It shows how narratives dealing with the neoliberal work world, global travel, and the aftermath of 09/11 implicitly comment on contemporary debates on globalization, its socio-economic nature, and the impact for local culture. By presenting a literary history of the present, Germans Going Global deepens the reader’s understanding of contemporary Germany and its cultural production.

Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has posed for Germany over the last two decades have been manifested and reimagined in aesthetic production. Analyses of the literary marketplace and public debates illuminate the more material sides of this development. The study also analyzes the ways in which German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975, such as Chr. Kracht, Th. Meinecke, J. Hermann, S. Berg, F. Illies, K. Röggla, J. v. Düffel, and G. Hens, respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these have influenced notions of authorship and literary aesthetics. It shows how narratives dealing with the neoliberal work world, global travel, and the aftermath of 09/11 implicitly comment on contemporary debates on globalization, its socio-economic nature, and the impact for local culture. By presenting a literary history of the present, Germans Going Global deepens the reader’s understanding of contemporary Germany and its cultural production.

"Jenny Erpenbeck ist die zurzeit wahrscheinlich international erfolgreichste deutsche Schriftstellerin. Ostdeutsche, könnte man genauer sagen (…)." Der Standard, WienIhre literarischen Texte wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u. a. mit dem Preis der Jury des Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerbs (2001), dem Joseph Breitbach-Preis (2013), dem Thomas-Mann-Preis (2016) und jüngst mit dem International Booker-Prize 2024 für den Roman "Kairos".Erpenbecks literarisches und essayistisches Werk schließt an die großen gesellschaftlichen Diskurse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts an. Politische Moral und Verantwortlichkeit, Heimat- und Migrationserfahrung, die Shoah und kulturelles Gedächtnis, DDR-Geschichte oder Fragen von Identitäts- und Alteritätskonstruktion sind ihre Themen.Die Beiträge des Heftes beleuchten ihr Werk aus verschiedenen Perspektiven: Sie fragen nach den Bedingungen des historischen Erzählens in Erpenbecks Romanen, gehen den Wegen des kollektiven und multidirektionalen Erinnerns und Vergessens in ihren Texten nach, vergleichen erzählerisches und dramatisches Werk, nehmen Erpenbecks ästhetische Verfahren und poetologische Selbstauskünfte in den Blick und diskutieren die Rezeption ihrer Texte in der Literaturkritik.