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...