Heffernan, Valerie and Pye, Gillian
(2013)
Trends and Transitions in Contemporary German-language Writing by Women.
In:
Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German Language Literature.
Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1-34.
Abstract
Women have never played a stronger role in German literature than
since the turn of the new millennium. As writers, editors, publishers,
translators, critics, and readers, they are a powerful force in the shaping
of the twenty-first century literary landscape. This book aims to
illuminate the contribution of a number of emerging female Germanlanguage
writers to this terrain. Its perspective is broad: it argues that
despite their contribution to literary life, women writers remain as yet
underrepresented in academic criticism of recent German-language
fiction. This volume therefore belongs to a period of scholarly transition:
a space where women seem, despite their highly visible activity, to
remain nevertheless partially out of sight. The essays in this collection
seek to bring them closer to view by exploring some of the ways in
which female writers are addressing key themes and concerns of recent
years. It is vital to recognise that each writer speaks from a multifaceted
place, which is defined by material, cultural, historical but also gendered
constraints, and so the analyses in this book open up, but do not restrict
themselves to, gendered readings of texts.
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