Edited by Rhys W. Williams
‘ . . . contain hitherto unpublished texts by the author, an interview, a series of critical essays, and biographical and bibliographical information … providing both an overview and high-quality material for the specialist.’
Modern Language Review
Esther Dischereit
Katharina Hall
approx pp 181 216x138mm July 2007 hardback
ISBN-13 978-0-7083-1991-8
Esther Dischereit is a Berlin-based, Jewish-German author who has played a prominent literary and cultural role in Germany since the 1980s. Through a series of academic articles in English and German, this volume will be the first detailed assessment of her work and contribution to contemporary German literature over the past twenty years. It examines Dischereit’s explorations of female Jewish-German identity in her numerous novels, poems, plays and essays, as well as how she views her own, sometimes conflicted position as a Jewish-German writer in the post-Holocaust Germany of today.
The volume also includes a previously unpublished work by Dischereit, and an in-depth interview with the author, held during her period as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Contemporary German Literature, University of Wales, Swansea in July and September 2003.
Dr Katharina Hall is a lecturer in the German Department, University of Wales, Swansea.