Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Contemporary German-Language Literature and Transnationalism

pp 1-16

Part I - Contexts

pp 17-18

1 - How Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature?

pp 19-42

2 - Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Literary World-Building in the Twenty-First Century

pp 43-64

3 - Affect, Aesthetics, Biopower, and Technology: Political Interventions into Transnationalism

pp 65-86

Part II - Texts

pp 87-88

4 - “On the Plane to Bishkek or in the Airport of Tashkent”: Transnationalism and Notions of Home in Recent German Literature

pp 89-105

5 - Transnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht's Imperium and Teju Cole's Open City

pp 106-124

6 - Writing Travel in the Global Age: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Reworking of Generic Conventions of Travel Literature in Ilija Trojanow's An den inneren Ufern Indiens and Nomade auf vier Kontinenten

pp 125-143

7 - Europe's Invisible Ghettos: Transnationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin

pp 144-161

8 - Precarious Sexualities, Neoliberalism, and the Pop-Feminist Novel: Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete and Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill as Transnational Texts

pp 162-186

9 - Dislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel's Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf

pp 187-208

10 - Cultural Dichotomies and Lived Transnationalism in Recent Russian-German Narratives

pp 209-227

11 - “Wo geh ich her? . . . Wo komm ich hin?”: Delineating Transnational Spaces in the Work of Juli Zeh

pp 228-246

12 - Transnational Politics in Friedrich Dürrentmatt's Der Auftrag and Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand

pp 247-264

Appendix: Interview with Ilija Trojanow

pp 265-270

Notes on the Contributors

pp 271-274

Index

pp 275-284