Session Details

Friday, 29 December

411. Closing Borders, Bridging Gaps? German Pop at the Millennium

10:15–11:30 a.m., Washington A, Loews

A special session

Presiding: Anke S. Biendarra, Univ. of California, Irvine

1. “Kölner Realismus Redux? The Legacy of 1960s Realism in Postunification Literature,” Carrie Smith-Prei, Trinity Coll., Dublin

2. “Pop Cultural Positionings: Minor and Major Archives in Feridun Zaimoglu and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre,” Thomas Ernst, Univ. of Trier

3. “Author or Data Jockey? Thomas Meinecke’s Novels as an ‘Archive of the Surface,’” Enno Stahl, Heinrich-Heine-Inst.

4. “‘Eingeborene von Trizonesien’: (Re)Making History in German Schlager,” Sunka Simon, Swarthmore Coll.

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