Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures brings together analyses of post-2000 literary works from twelve European literatures. Topics include the post-postmodern; the relationship between history, fiction and testimony; and human relations in the twenty-first century, including hypermodernity, ageing, intersexuality and migration.

Contents: Camille de Toledo: Zwischen-las-lenguas is where I stand – Margaret-Anne Hutton: Introduction – Kristin Veel: Surveillance Narratives: Overload, Desire and Representation in Contemporary Narrative Fiction – Erika Fülöp: The Blogosphere and the Gutenberg Galaxy and Other Impossible Oppositions: Éric Chevillard’s L’Autofictif – Ricardo Fernández Romero: Dirty Metaphysics: The Novels of Pablo Sánchez – Nicolas Dreyer: Contemporary Russian Fiction: insanis, demens et delirans? – Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf: ‘Écrire le réel malade’: Régis Jauffret’s Shocking Panorama of Contemporary French Society in Microfictions (2007) – Léa Vuong: Pascal Quignard’s Metamorphoses: A Contemporary Recuperation of Literary Fairy Tales – Angela Kershaw: Reading Némirovsky Now: Resistant Representations of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century French Literature – Peter Sjølyst-Jackson: Reframing History: Fiction and Testimony in Roy Jacobsen’s The Loggers – Anja Gerigk: Memory Trouble After Post-Histoire: Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage – Sven Kramer: Reconsidering ‘Heimat’: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Novel Heimsuchung (2008) – Andrea Gazzoni: Migrant Storytelling: Trauma, History, Stories and Restoration in Cross-Cultural Literature in Contemporary Italy – Nathalie Froloff: A Radical Renewal of the Autobiography in French Contemporary Literature: Ernaux and Carrère – Angelika Baier: Intersections: Hermaphroditism as a ‘Travelling Concept’ in Ulrike Draesner’s Novel Mitgift (2002) – Catherine du Toit: Ageing in the Twenty-First Century – Michèle A. Schaal: The Hypermodern Condition in Isabelle Flükiger’s Novels – Christina Chandler Andrews: The Phenomenology of Inter-Subjectivity and Co-Existence in the Post-9/11 World: McEwan’s Saturday and Amis’s ‘The Last Days of Muhammad Atta’ – Naòmi Morgan: Translation x 2: Yasmina Reza’s Le Dieu du carnage from French to Afrikaans, from Script to Stage – Helen O’Sullivan: Learning Words: Language Learner Narrative in the Twenty-First Century – Gunhild Berg/Rainer Godel: How to Create a Literary Trend, or How to Establish a Winner: An Analysis of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2000-2010 – Sandra Vlasta: ‘Literature of Migration’: A New Trend in ‘Austrian Literature’ in the Twenty-First Century?