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There has been an -ethical turn- in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of -the other- in its various manifestations. And in the German context especially, the past and its representation offer ongoing moral challenges. These...

The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent againsincethe fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millenniumwhen transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’sself-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference tocurrent discourses of masculinityin novels by five contemporary male German-language authors.Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of...