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Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, Oxford
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the work of one of the most widely read and intriguing contemporary German-language writers: Barbara Honigmann. The book covers her entire oeuvre, exploring her treatment of identity and...
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This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the work of one of the most widely read and intriguing contemporary German-language writers: Barbara Honigmann. The book covers her entire oeuvre, exploring her treatment of identity and belonging, Jewishness across generations, migration and multiculturalism, postmemory and language.
Publisher:
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, Oxford
This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the work of one of the most widely read and intriguing contemporary German-language writers: Barbara Honigmann. The book covers her entire oeuvre, exploring her treatment of identity and...
more
This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the work of one of the most widely read and intriguing contemporary German-language writers: Barbara Honigmann. The book covers her entire oeuvre, exploring her treatment of identity and belonging, Jewishness across generations, migration and multiculturalism, postmemory and language. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction (Robert Gillett) -- 'Nicht ganz rund im leeren Kühlschrank laufen' -- translation of Chantal Akerman, 'Marcher à côté de ses lacets dans un frigidaire vide' (Barbara Honigmann) -- 'Das kann und darf nicht wahr sein' [That can't and mustn't be true]: Barbara Honigmann's Stage Adaptation of Das singende springende Löweneckerchen (Martin Brady) -- Signed out of the GDR: The Jewish Perspective on the Former German State in Barbara Honigmann's Writing - Originating in Roman von einem Kinde (Rapha Hoffmann) -- 'Banal Words Made Out of Nothing': Exploring the Sophisticated Simplicity of Barbara Honigmann's Narrative Style (Margaret May) -- Women's Liberation in Honigmann's Soharas Reise (Ernest Schonfield) -- Performances in Language: The Dramaturgy of Voice in Alles, alles Liebe! and Provinzbriefe (Robert Gillett) -- Between Distance and Belonging: Space, Time and Multilingualism in Das überirdische Licht (Godela Weiss-Sussex) -- Pictures That Hold Us Captive: A Rumour of Transcendence in Barbara Honigmann's Bilder von A. (William Collins Donahue) -- Pictures in B.: Unpacking Postmemory in the Work of Barbara Honigmann (Withold Bonner) -- 'Damals, dann und danach': The Place of Intergenerational Communication in Honigmann and Others (Astrid Köhler) -- Interview with Barbara Honigmann (Robert Gillett / Godela Weiss-Sussex) -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Appendix: Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex, Interview mit Barbara Honigmann (German original) -- Index -- Series Index.
