"The foundation for this volume was laid at a three-day-long seminar workshop entitled "Transnationalisms : sexualities, fantasies, and the world beyond" that took place at the Thirty-Seventh annual conference of the German Studies Association in Denver, Colorado, October 3-6, 2013" (Acknowledgments) Includes bibliographical references and index Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart TabernerContexts. How does transnationalism redefine contemporary literature? / Elisabeth Herrmann: Introduction: Contemporary German-language literature and transnationalism Stuart Taberner: Transnationalism and cosmopolitanism: literary world-building in the twenty-first century Carrie Smith-Prei: Affect, aesthetics, biopower, and technology: political interventions into transnationalism Katharina Gerstenberger: Texts. "On the plane to Bishkek or in the airport of Tashkent": transnationalism and notions of home in recent German literature Claudia Breger: Transnationalism, colonial loops, and the vicissitudes of cosmopolitan affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open City Christina Kraenzle: Writing 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 Kontinenten Maria Mayr: Europe's invisible ghettos: transnationalism and neoliberal capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin Hester Baer: Precarious sexualities, neoliberalism, and the pop-feminist novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as transnational texts Faye Stewart: Dislocation, multiplicity, and transformation: posttransnationalism in Antje Ravic Strubel's Kaltere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf Anke S. Biendarra: Cultural dichotomies and lived transnationalism in recent Russian-German narratives Lars Richter: "Wo geh ich her? . . . wo komm ich hin?": delineating transnational spaces in the work of Juli Zeh Tanja Nusser: Transnational politics in Friedrich Dürrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand Elisabeth Herrmann and Carrie Smith-Prei.: Appendix: Interview with Ilija Trojanow |
