This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a compr

Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German wo

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.

This is the first book to examine this crucial relationship between politics and culture in Germany, not only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods w