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Book Reviews which build--often seamlessly--on one another to illuminate issues from a variety of angles. This results in a high degree of cohesion, which certainly goes a long way towards fulfilling the editors' goal of providing orientation in a complex present. University College Dublin --Gillian Pye Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German-language Literature. Edited by Valerie Heffernan and Gillian Pye. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 235 pages. 50,00. Women have never been more involved in the German-language literary scene than they are today, whether as authors, publishers, editors, or readers. Yet literature by women remains underrepresented in scholarship, a particularly grievous state given the post-1989 boom in publications by women authors. Valerie Heffernan and Gillian Pye set out to redress this deficit in their edited volume Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German-language Literature, and they succeed in assembling a collection of ten articles and an introduction that firmly situates itself as an authoritative contribution to scholarship on German-language women writers. In their well-researched introduction, Heffernan and Pye begin by substantiating their claim that more and more women are participating in Germany's book industry. They also point to the increased number of female winners of literary prizes and the greater media
Monatshefte – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Mar 15, 2016
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