Lyn Marven Knihy

Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.

This book compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the GDR). It looks at images of the body and their relationship to the structures of their writing as well as analysing the social, cultural, and political contexts.