Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit

Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction
Herausgeber: Bruce Campbell, Bruce; Petersen, Vibeke Rützou; Guenther-Pal, Alison

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Inc
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781571135933
• ISBN-10: 1571135936
• Artikelnr.: 40454734

Autorenporträt

Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, Vibeke Rützou Petersen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke - Genre Fiction and Why It Is
Important German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses
of the Holocaust A Future History Out of Time: The Historical Context of
Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten
Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach
Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the
Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen The Imaginary FBI: Jerry
Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics
of Detective Fiction in West Germany Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site
of Memory in Contemporary Germany Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in
German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest The
Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences Through the Eyes
of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer The Kränzchen Library and the
Creation of Teenage Identity Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny
and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland Bibliography Notes on
the Contributors Index