Description: Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present.
Brief description: Katharina Gerstenberger is associate professor of German at the University of Cincinatti.
Review Quotes: [A]ll [the volume's contributors] offer substantive and provocative viewpoints. . . . [T]his well-curated volume should inspire further work on the role of cultural production in the age of the anthropocene. The book's interdisciplinary approach certainly makes it important reading for graduate students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.-- "MONATSHEFTE"