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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Contemporary German Literature"”.
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Between Heimat and Fremde: New Configurations of Happiness in Contemporary German Literature and Film
… representations of happiness in recent German literature and film. The interpretations focus on how happiness is negotiated in the context of home and travel, of Heimat and Fremde, in order to understand happiness, not only insofar as it contributes to “the good life”, but also as an …
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"Pasts With Futures: Temporality, Subjectivity And Postcommunism In Contemporary German Literature By Herta MüLler, Zsuzsa BàNk And TeréZia Mora"
… narrative features distinguishing German literature about European communism and its legacies. Set against landscapes marked by Soviet occupation and Ceauşescu's communist dictatorship in Romania (Müller) and against the 1956 Hungarian revolution, eastern European border openings, …
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PER UNA LETTERATURA VINCENTE: INFLUSSI DI DEUTSCHER BUCHPREIS E PREIS DER LEIPZIGER BUCHMESSE SULLA STRUTTURAZIONE DEL CAMPO LETTERARIO TEDESCO CONTEMPORANEO
This dissertation focuses on two German book prizes (Deutscher Buchpreis and Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) that have been instituted in 2005 and by comparing them it aims to outline an overview of contemporary German literature and to analyze the influence that such institutions create in the …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
<p>The German Romantic monolingual paradigm of national identity emerged in the late eighteenth century to establish a mother tongue as a national backbone. This paradigm portrayed multilingualism as destabilizing, impoverishing, and unsuitable for aesthetics. Radicalized by the Nazis and …
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Memory on the move: transnational travel in post-1989 German literature
Contemporary German literature after 1989 has become increasingly transnational and transcultural, given its numerous portrayals of travel, particularly in exploring traumatic family pasts. The transitional years of 1989/90, known as the Wende, have arguably resulted in greater mobility and …
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Renegotiating history: representations of the family in post-1989 German literature
… productive coping mechanisms developed in German literature after 1989. In artistic representation, family marks the site where the GDR’s dissolution and new post-1989 beginnings are negotiated. I draw on the concepts of agency, memory, and space to show how the historical transformation in …
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New Forms of Kinship in Contemporary Literature and Film from the German-Speaking World
This thesis is concerned with the ways in which contemporary German-language literature and film partake in the representation, interrogation, and constitution of kinship as a contested field of social relations in the twenty-first century. In considering kinship, with the philosopher Judith …