German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century

HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. ALEXANDRA MERLEY STEWART (formerly Alexandra Merley Hill) is Professor of German and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. ALEXANDRA MERLEY STEWART (formerly Alexandra Merley Hill) is Professor of German and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. HESTER BAER is Professor of German Studies and an affiliate in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. JILL SUZANNE SMITH is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College. KATHERINE BRUCE is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick. MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. NECIA CHRONISTER is Professor of German at Kansas State University.

• Introduction: German Women's Writing Beyond the Gender Binary - Hester Baer and Alexandra Merley HillLanguage-Bodies: Interpellation and Gender Transition in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Judith Hermann's "Sonja" - Necia ChronisterMatrilineal Narrative and the Feminist Family Romance - Valerie HeffernanThe Pitfalls of Constructing a Female Genealogy: Cultural Memory of National Socialism in Recent Family Narratives - Katherine StoneReckoning with God: Attitudes toward Religion in German-Language Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century - Sheridan MarshallMuslim Writing, Women's Writing - Lindsay LawtonPopfeminism, Ethnicity, and Race in Contemporary Germany: Hatice Akyün's Popfeminist Autobiographic Works Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße (2005) and Ali zum Dessert (2008) - Mihaela PetrescuThe Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray - Carrie Smith-PreiThe Awkward Politics of Popfeminist Literary Events: Helene Hegemann, Charlotte Roche, and Lady Bitch Ray - Maria StehleThe Indictment of Neoliberalism and Communism in the Novels of Katharina Hacker, Nikola Richter, Judith Schalansky, and Julia Schoch - Helga DruxesSounds of Silence: Rape and Representation in Juli Zeh's Bosnian Travelogue - Jill Suzanne SmithBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[S]ucceeds in demonstrating the continued relevance of 'German women's writing,' not least its ability to critique, destabilize, and confound. . . . A welcome resource for undergraduate and graduate seminars, the volume is also of value for scholarly research on the diverse approaches and authors that constitute the field of the field of German women's writing today.