Product Description: In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial war in South-West Africa, has continued to the present, making colonialism an established theme of literary memorialization alongside Germany's dominant memory themes -- National Socialism and the Holocaust, the former GDR and its demise in the Wende, and, more recently, "1968...read more

Product Description: Metropole, Provinz und Welt bilden in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus ein mehrbezugliches Spannungsfeld. Der Band erkundethistorisch, systematisch, in Fallstudien und vergleichend, wie sich die Werke von Autoren wie Fontane, Raabe, Auerbach, Spielhagen u...read more

The Raabe Society Yearbook was founded in 1960, and since its 30th volume (1989) has been published by Max Niemeyer publishers in Tübingen. It not only provides a forum for specialists working on the extraordinarily extensive narrative writings of Wilhelm Raabe himself (1831-1910) but has also developed as a conduit for general work on German Realism. Each volume contains papers and miscellaneous articles, a review section and an annual bibliography of the latest research in Raabe studies. The language of publication is German.