Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: German Literature in the Age of Globalisation; Stuart Taberner 2. East German Writing in the Age of Globalisation; Paul Cooke 3. 'Was will ich denn als Westdeutscher erzahlen?': The 'Old' West and Globalisation in Recent German Prose; Andrew Plowman 4. Germany as Background: Global Concerns in Recent Women's Writing In German; Beth Linklater 5. The German Province in the Age of Globalisation: Botho StrauB, Arnold Stradler and Hans-Ulrich Treichel; Stuart Taberner 6. A Matter of Perspective: Prose Debuts in Contemporary German Literature; Dieter Stolz 7. Not Top of the Pops? - Martin Walser's Writing since 1990; Stuart Parkes 8. Denouncing Globalisation: Ingo Schramm's 'Fitcher's Blau'; Helmut Schmitz 9. German Pop Literature and Cultural Globalisation; Thomas Ernst 10. 'Dann ware Deutschland wie das Wort Neckarrauen': Surface, Superficiality and Globalisation in Christian Kracht's 'Faserland'; Frank Finlay 11. Writing by Ethnic Minorities in the Age of Globalisation; Katharina Gestenberger 12./ The Globalisation of Memory and the Rediscovery of German Suffering; Bill Niven Index

About the Author

Stuart Taberner is Head of the German Department and Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds.