Table of Contents

1: Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven: Introduction
2: Katrin Kohl: Beyond Realism:Herta Müller's Poetics
3: Alex Drace-Francis: Beyond the Land of Green Plums: Romanian culture and language in Herta Müller's work
4: Valentina Glajar: The Presence of the Unresolved Recent Past: Herta Müller and the Securitate
5: Moray McGowan: 'Stadt und Schädel', 'Reisende' and 'Verlorene': city, self and survival in Herta Müller's Reisende auf einem Bein
6: Beverly Eddy: A Mutilated Fox Fur: Examining the Contexts of Imagery in Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger
7: Norbert Otto Eke: 'Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mir, macht nichts': Herta Müller's Romanian Novels
8: Brigid Haines: Return from the Archipelago: Herta Müller's Atemschaukel as soft memory
9: Lyn Marven: 'So fremd war das Gebilde': The Interaction between Visual and Verbal in Herta Müller's Prose and Collages
10: Karin Bauer: Gender and the Sexual Politics of Exchange in Herta Müller's Prose
11: Wiebke Sievers: Eastward bound: Herta Müller's international reception
12: Jean Boase-Beier: Herta Müller in Translation
13: Lyn Marven: Life and Literature: Autobiography, Referentiality and Intertextuality in Herta Müller's Work
14: Rebecca Braun: Famously Literary? The Nobel Prize and Herta Müller's Authorial Body

About the Author

Brigid Haines is Reader in German at Swansea University. Her research focuses on gender and culture, and the 'eastern turn' in contemporary German literature. She is the author (with Margaret Littler) of Contemporary German Women's Writing: Changing the Subject, and of Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter, and has edited books on Herta Müller and (with Lyn Marven) Libuse Moníková.
; Lyn Marven is Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses particularly on contemporary literature, and she is the author of Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German: Herta Müller, Libuse Moníková and Kerstin Hensel; she has also edited volumes on Libuse Moníková (with Brigid Haines), Cultural Impact (with Rebecca Braun) and Emerging Novelists (with Stuart Taberner).

Reviews

In their concise introduction, Haines and Marven provide an excellent overview of Miller's biographical background and key themes. In totality, the volume, which includes an extensive bibliography and index, offers a first-rate, highly informative, and extensively contextualized account of Miller's oeuvre
*M. Shafi, University of Delaware, CHOICE*

excellent contribution to the study of an important contemporary author.
*David Midgley, Modern Language Review*