Description:
An exacting meditation on the financial realities of authorship, Agency and Author explores how lesser-known German-language writers navigate the German literary landscape. Ranging from literary awards to social media hate campaigns, this volume considers authorial attempts to assert creative agency and the implications for wider, structural change it offers.
Brief description:
Rachel J. Halverson is Professor of German and Director of the School of Global Studies at the University of Idaho. A specialist in post-war and post-unification German literature and culture, she has published research on the Historikerstreit, as well as the works of Siegfried Lenz, Jurek Becker, Günter de Bruyn, and Martina Hefter, among others. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, she has co-edited three anthologies: Textual Responses to German Unification (2001) and Berlin: The Symphony Continues (2004), with Carol Anne Costabile-Heming and Kristie Foell; and Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium (2015), with Costabile-Heming.