The Eastern Turn in Contemporary German, Swiss and Austrian Literature

Brigid Haines

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2008, vol. 16, issue 2, 135-149

Abstract: This paper notes that recent fiction in German by writers from eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia constitutes a new wave of migrant writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It suggests a provisional unity to these texts based on the snapshot they provide of late-stage communism and the post-communist transformation of eastern and western Europe, focusing on five common scenarios. Yet the considerable areas of overlap with trends in other German-language literatures indicate that this literature cannot be labelled “marginal”. Rather this emerging field is transforming German literatures from within and contributing to a post-Cold War remapping of Europe. 1 This research was generously supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council under their Research Leave Scheme.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/09651560802316899

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