Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes derogatory reception in the press. Since then, scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a...
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Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes derogatory reception in the press. Since then, scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. Essays in the volume examine works by well-known pop writers like Christian Kracht, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Charlotte Roche. Margaret McCarthy, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA. Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes derogatory reception in the press. Since then, scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. Essays in the volume examine works by well-known pop writers like Christian Kracht, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimo?lu and Charlotte Roche
Table of Contents; Introduction; Section 1: Historical Roots and Official Stories; An Alternative History of Pop; Under Construction: Andreas Neumeister's Pop Modern Historiographies; Section 2: Alternative Voices and Vantage Points; The Pop-Nostalgia of Sven Regener and Leander Haußmann; Pop-Cultural Camera Interventions: Kanak TV; Section 3: Pop and Gender; Bodily Harm: Pop Masculinity in Benjamin Lebert's Crazy and Der Vogel ist ein Rabe; 'There's No Lobby for Girls in Pop': Writing the Performative Popfeminist Subject
Generation Golf Meets Zonenkinder: Gender, (N)ostalgia and the Berlin RepublicSection 4: Pop in the New Millennium; The Party's Over: PeterLicht and the End of Capitalism; Fear of the Queer? On Homosexuality, Masculinity and the Auratic in Christian Kracht's Anti-Pop Pop Novels; Pop Eats Itself: Crisis Discourse, the Literary Market and Pop Performance in Joachim Lottmann's Novels; Pop vs. Plagiarism: Popliterary Intertextuality, Author Performance and the Disappearance of Originality in Helene Hegemann; Pop Literature: A Bibliography; Index