| Acknowledgements | 9 |
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| Introduction: Contemporary German Literature and Cultural Globalization | 11 |
| 1 Effects of Globalization on the Literary Marketplace and Contemporary Authorship | 29 |
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| Distinctive Features of Germany’s Literary Marketplace | 30 |
| Authorship: Changed Paradigms | 33 |
| Showing the Authorial Self | 38 |
| Fräuleinwunder | 45 |
| The Rise of New German Pop Literature | 48 |
| Fashioning the Authorial Self on the World Wide Web | 53 |
| Personal Web Sites as a Medium of Authorial Self Representation | 56 |
| Authorship 2.0: Stephenie Meyer | 61 |
| 2 Globalizing German Literature: Literary Debates around the Millennium | 67 |
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| Debates among Older Intellectuals | 69 |
| ...ist alles so schön bunt hier: Debates on Contemporary Realism | 75 |
| Authentische Alltäglichkeit: Turning towards a Literature of the Authentic Everyday | 84 |
| Ingo Schulze’s Simple Storys (1998) | 86 |
| Elke Naters’s Königinnen (1998) and Lügen (1999) | 91 |
| 3 Brave New Work World: Narratives of the New Economy | 99 |
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| Recent Developments in the German Economy | 103 |
| The Individual in Precarious Times | 107 |
| A Short History of Work Literature | 110 |
| Narratives of Work in the Aughts | 112 |
| The Aesthetics of the Surface: The Work of (M)Ad Men in Joachim Bessing’s Wir Maschine (2001) and Rainer Merkel’s Das Jahr der Wunder (2001) | 113 |
| Economized Bodies: John von Düffel’s EGO (2001) | 126 |
| The Readability of the World in Ghostly Times: Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht (2004) | 130 |
| 4 Forms of Social Realism: Unemployment in Contemporary Narratives | 139 |
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| Sentenced to Idleness: Annette Pehnt’s Mobbing (2007) and Jakob Hein’s Herr Jensen steigt aus (2006) | 142 |
| Flotsam of Globalization: Joachim Zelter’s Die Schule der Arbeitslosen (2006) | 149 |
| 5 Traveling Without Moving? Narratives of (Im)Mobility | 157 |
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| Global Tourists in Judith Hermann’s Nichts als Gespenster (2003) | 163 |
| Mobile Cosmopolitans in Gregor Hens’s Transfer Lounge (2003) | 167 |
| Global and Local Violence: Gregor Hens’s Matta verlässt seine Kinder (2004) | 170 |
| Hedonism Gone Global: Christian Kracht’s Der gelbe Bleistift (1999) | 174 |
| No Happiness on Earth: Sibylle Berg’s Die Fahrt (2007) | 182 |
| Retreating to the Province: Florian Illies’s Ortsgespräch (2006) | 190 |
| 6 Coda: Piles of Authenticity: Narrating 09/11 | 199 |
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| Works Cited | 211 |
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| Index | 237 |
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