The wounded self : writing illness in twenty-first-century German literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schmidt, Nina, 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2018]
Series:	Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:	Diseases in literature. People with disabilities in literature. German fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Autobiographical fiction, German > History and criticism. German prose literature > 21st century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Autofiction, disgust, and trauma: negotiating vulnerable subject positions in Charlotte Roche's Schossgebete
Looking beyond the self-reflecting the other: staring as a narrative device in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht
Intertextuality and the transnational in Verena Stefan's Fremdschlafer: writing breast cancer from beyond the border
Confronting cancer publicly: diary writing in extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf
Conclusion: "und was dann": recent developments and research desiderata.