Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German Herta Müller, Libuse Moníková, Kerstin Hensel

This book compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the GDR). It looks at images of the body and their relationship to the structures of their writing as well as analysing the social, cultural, and political contexts.