a student blog on several present-day authors writing in German

Logan Carter in Contemporary German Literature

May 4, 2023

Tschick: Translating John Green

Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Tschick bears all the genre tropes inherent to Young Adult Fiction. The Manic Pixie…

Trinidy Thompson in Contemporary German Literature

May 4, 2023

Tschick: a road trip toward maturing

When breaking down genres and themes in books, young adult (YA) and coming-of-age stories…

Donovon Moore in Contemporary German Literature

May 3, 2023

An Abundance of Tropes

Towards the Walachei and Adulthood

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Logan Carter in Contemporary German Literature

Apr 11, 2023

Cultural Memory and Cultural Forgetting: Nora Krug’s “Belonging”

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Trinidy Thompson in Contemporary German Literature

Apr 11, 2023

Reclaiming Heimat

Coming to terms with one's past can be a difficult and long process, yet when looking back at the past, many personal questions…

SterlingT in Contemporary German Literature

Apr 10, 2023

Heimat

Overcoming the past to recover the more distant past.

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Donovon Moore in Contemporary German Literature

Apr 9, 2023

Heimat Sweet Heimat?

Does it mean Belonging to or Belonging in a place?

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SterlingT in Contemporary German Literature

Mar 20, 2023

Generations of Migration: Isolated like a bear on a block of ice.

The story Etueden im Schnee, is a…

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Logan Carter in Contemporary German Literature

Mar 17, 2023

The Mundane Issues of Magical Bears: Magical Realism and Immigration

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Trinidy Thompson in Contemporary German Literature

Mar 17, 2023

A look into generations

Etüden im Schnee (Memoirs of a Polar Bear), by Yoko Tawada, is a three-part novel, presenting (among other things)…

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Contemporary German Literature

a course blog on several contemporary authors writing in German and their engagement with German pasts, presents, and futures

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