German Pop Literature: A Companion (Companions to Contemporary German Culture)

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. This volume draws on recent work and its attempts to define the genre, locate historical antecedents and assess pop’s ability to challenge the status quo. Significantly, it questions the ‘official story’ of pop literature by looking beyond Ralf Dieter Brinkmann’s works as origin to those of Jürgen Ploog, Jörg Fauser and Hadayatullah Hübsch. It also remedies the lack of attention to questions of gender in previous pop lit scholarship and demonstrates how the genre has evolved in the new millennium via expanded thematic concerns and new aesthetic approaches. Essays in the volume examine the writing of well-known, established pop authors – such as Christian Kracht, Andreas Neumeister, Joachim Lottman, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Sven Regener – as well as more recent works by Jana Hensel, Charlotte Roche, Kerstin Grether, Helene Hegemann and songwriter/poet PeterLicht. * provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on pop literature * offers alternative approaches that locate new origins, highlight gender and pop’s forms in the new millennium * contributes Anglo-American scholarship to the field Pop Literature Of The 1990s Enjoyed Bestselling Success, As Well As An Extensive And Sometimes Derogatory Reception In The Press. Since Then, Scholarship On Pop Has Emerged To Challenge Its Flash-in-the-pan Status By Situating The Genre Within A Longer History Of Aesthetic Practices. The Essays In The Volume Examine Works By Well-known Pop Writers Like Christian Kracht, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu And Charlotte Roche-- Section 1: Historical Roots And Official Stories -- Enno Stahl: An Alternative History Of Pop -- Sabine Von Dirke: Under Construction: Andreas Neumeister's Pop Modern Historiographies -- Section 2: Alternative Voices And Vantage Points -- Hester Baer: The Pop-nostalgia Of Sven Regener And Leander Haussmann -- Claudia Breger: Pop-cultural Camera Interventions: Kanak Tv -- Section 3: Pop And Gender -- Molly Knight: Bodily Harm: Pop Masculinity In Benjamin Lebert's Crazy And Der Vogel Ist Ein Rabe -- Emily Spiers: There's No Lobby For Girls In Pop: Writing The Performative Popfeminist Subject -- Corinna Kahnke: Generation Golf Meets Zonenkinder: Gender, (n)ostalgia And The Berlin Republic -- Section 4: Pop In The New Millennium -- Gillian Pye: The Party's Over: Peterlicht And The End Of Capitalism -- Gary Schmidt: Fear Of The Queer?: On Homosexuality, Masculinity And The Auratic In Christian Kracht's Anti-pop Pop Novels -- Carrie Smith-prei: Pop Eats Itself: Crisis Discourse, The Literary Market And Pop Performance In Joachim Lottmann's Novels -- Thomas Ernst: Pop Vs. Plagiarism: Popliterary Intertextuality, Staged Authorship And The Disappearance Of Originality In Helene Hegemann -- Pop Literature: A Bibliography. Edited By Margaret Mccarthy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. This volume draws on recent work and its attempts to define the genre, locate historical antecedents and assess pop’s ability to challenge the status quo. Significantly, it questions the ‘official story’ of pop literature by looking beyond Ralf Dieter Brinkmann’s works as origin to those of Jürgen Ploog, Jörg Fauser and Hadayatullah Hübsch. It also remedies the lack of attention to questions of gender in previous pop lit scholarship and demonstrates how the genre has evolved in the new millennium via expanded thematic concerns and new aesthetic approaches. Essays in the volume examine the writing of well-known, established pop authors – such as Christian Kracht, Andreas Neumeister, Joachim Lottman, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Sven Regener – as well as more recent works by Jana Hensel, Charlotte Roche, Kerstin Grether, Helene Hegemann and songwriter/poet PeterLicht.