INTRODUCTION: HERTA MÜLLER AND THE CURRENTS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

Bauer, Karin; Haines, Brigid; Mallet, Michel; Watson, Jenny

doi:10.1111/glal.12257

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INTRODUCTION: HERTA MÜLLER AND THE CURRENTS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

Karin Bauer, Brigid Haines

, Michel Mallet, Jenny Watson

German Life and Letters, Volume: 73, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 9

Swansea University Author: Brigid Haines

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Ten years on from the award to her of the Nobel Prize in Literature and twenty years after German reunification and the fall of the Ceausescu regime in Romania this volume of essays by international scholars revisits Herta Müller’s work and places it within broader intellectual, geographical, and hi...

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