Full Description
Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures brings together analyses of post-2000 literary works from twelve European literatures. Sharing a common aim - that of taking the first step in identifying and analysing some of the emergent trends in contemporary European literatures - scholars from across Europe come together in this volume to address a range of issues. Topics include the post-postmodern; the effect of new media on literary production; the relationship between history, fiction and testimony; migrant writing and world literature; representation of ageing and intersexuality; life in hypermodernity; translation, both linguistic and cultural; and the institutional forces at work in the production and reception of twenty-first-century texts. Reading across the twenty chapters affords an opportunity to reconsider what is meant by both 'European' and 'contemporary literature' and to recontextualize single-discipline perspectives in a comparatist framework.
Contents
Contents: Camille de Toledo: Zwischen-las-lenguas is where I stand - Margaret-Anne Hutton: Introduction - Kristin Veel: Surveillance Narratives: Overload, Desire and Representation in Contemporary Narrative Fiction - Erika Fülöp: The Blogosphere and the Gutenberg Galaxy and Other Impossible Oppositions: Éric Chevillard's L'Autofictif - Ricardo Fernández Romero: Dirty Metaphysics: The Novels of Pablo Sánchez - Nicolas Dreyer: Contemporary Russian Fiction: insanis, demens et delirans? - Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf: 'Écrire le réel malade': Régis Jauffret's Shocking Panorama of Contemporary French Society in Microfictions (2007) - Léa Vuong: Pascal Quignard's Metamorphoses: A Contemporary Recuperation of Literary Fairy Tales - Angela Kershaw: Reading Némirovsky Now: Resistant Representations of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century French Literature - Peter Sjølyst-Jackson: Reframing History: Fiction and Testimony in Roy Jacobsen's The Loggers - Anja Gerigk: Memory Trouble After Post-Histoire: Terézia Mora's Alle Tage - Sven Kramer: Reconsidering 'Heimat': Jenny Erpenbeck's Novel Heimsuchung (2008) - Andrea Gazzoni: Migrant Storytelling: Trauma, History, Stories and Restoration in Cross-Cultural Literature in Contemporary Italy - Nathalie Froloff: A Radical Renewal of the Autobiography in French Contemporary Literature: Ernaux and Carrère - Angelika Baier: Intersections: Hermaphroditism as a 'Travelling Concept' in Ulrike Draesner's Novel Mitgift (2002) - Catherine du Toit: Ageing in the Twenty-First Century - Michèle A. Schaal: The Hypermodern Condition in Isabelle Flükiger's Novels - Christina Chandler Andrews: The Phenomenology of Inter-Subjectivity and Co-Existence in the Post-9/11 World: McEwan's Saturday and Amis's 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta' - Naòmi Morgan: Translation x 2: Yasmina Reza's Le Dieu du carnage from French to Afrikaans, from Script to Stage - Helen O'Sullivan: Learning Words: Language Learner Narrative in the Twenty-First Century - Gunhild Berg/Rainer Godel: How to Create a Literary Trend, or How to Establish a Winner: An Analysis of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2000-2010 - Sandra Vlasta: 'Literature of Migration': A New Trend in 'Austrian Literature' in the Twenty-First Century?
