New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature E-Book

Frauke Matthes

• Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Global Masculinities
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again  since  the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium  when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’s  self-perception as a nation . This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to  current discourses of masculinity  in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality,  ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and  assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere.