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Monatshefte, 2021

Abstract

German Leitkultur, turn interculturality itself into a point of investigation, or challenge notions of alterity altogether. After serving as a quote-worthy contrarian in several earlier chapters, Thomas Wörtche contributes an essay in which he situates the genre within broader literary discourses. Here, Wörtche provocatively reads how the scholarly reception of German crime fiction long determined its obscurity, (re-)discovery, and ultimate rehabilitation among literary scholars. Given the centrality of this reception history for understanding German crime fiction overall and his consideration of the genre as fundamentally multi-media, this essay might have served as part of the volume’s conceptual framework had it appeared earlier. William Collins Donahue and Jochen Vogt contribute a final chapter-length essay on teaching German crime fiction at US universities. Drawing on their experiences at Duke University, the two make the case for how such content may provide a springboard for...

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