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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Global masculinities |
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Global masculinities series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Note on Translations -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Masculinity, Transnationalism, and the German Cultural Imagination -- Approaching Masculinity in Twenty-First-Century Germany -- Masculine Anxieties and the Other -- The New Visibility of Masculinity -- New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature: From "Native" to Transnational -- References -- Chapter 2: Men Without Women: Clemens Meyer -- East German Masculinities in a Transnational World -- Becoming Men at the Cusp of 2000: Als wir träumten -- Marginalized Masculinities-Local and Transnational: Im Stein -- Men in Love, or Shifting Masculinities -- References -- Chapter 3: Masculinity in Conflict: Maxim Biller -- Masculinity and the (Negative) German-Jewish Symbiosis -- Fierce Encounters: Die Tochter -- "Liebe in Deutschland"? -- Love, Conflict, and German Jewish Masculinities -- References -- Chapter 4: Masculinity and Religion: Navid Kermani -- Difference, Islam, and Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity -- Marketing Difference: Kurzmitteilung -- Negotiating Difference: Große Liebe -- Experiencing Difference in Politicized Worlds -- References -- Chapter 5: Masculinities Across Borders: Feridun Zaimoglu -- Literary Models of Masculinity and Feridun Zaimoglu's "Border Thinking" -- Romantic Transnationals: Liebesbrand -- Coda: Romantic Masculinity in Hinterland -- Working-Class Locals: Ruß -- Writing Masculinities Across Literary Borders -- References -- Chapter 6: Man in Crisis: Ilija Trojanow -- The Explorer's Crisis: From "Native" to Transnational -- From Weltensammler to "Eco-Warrior," or Crisis of Masculinity Meets Crisis of Nature: EisTau -- Encountering Nature and the Male Self: Responsibility, Otherness, and Affect -- Post-Nature-Post-Masculinity -- Crisis, Ambiguities, and New Masculinities -- References |
| Summary |
The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany's self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere. -Publisher's website |
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Frauke Matthes probes themes of difference, desire and cultural (dis-)location in contemporary German fiction, illuminating the ambivalent and varied realities of masculinity in compelling readings of texts by five prominent male authors. With its welcome emphasis on writers who are culturally other to a hegemonic German mainstream, the study diversifies and deepens critical perspectives on lived and imagined masculinities within the wider landscape of global neoliberal ecocidal capitalism.--Caitrona N Dhill, Professor of German, University College Cork, Ireland The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germanys self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere. Frauke Matthes is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author and co-editor of several books and articles on contemporary German-language writing, masculinities in literature, and transnational and world literature |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Masculinity in literature.
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Literature and transnationalism -- Germany
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German literature
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Literature and transnationalism
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Masculinity in literature
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Germany
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031103186 |
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3031103181 |
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