Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke—Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important

pp 1-28

Part I - Science Fiction and Dystopia

pp 29-30

1 - German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the Holocaust

pp 31-48

2 - A Future-History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin’s Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten

pp 49-66

3 - Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach

pp 67-88

Part II - Detection and Crime

pp 89-90

4 - Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen

pp 91-116

5 - The Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West Germany

pp 117-132

6 - Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary Germany

pp 133-151

7 - Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest

pp 152-180

Part III - Versions of the “I”: Pop Literatures on the Way to the Self

pp 181-182

8 - The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences through the Eyes of Vicki Baum’s stud. chem. Helene Willfüer

pp 183-206

9 - The Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage Identity

pp 207-226

10 - Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht’s Faserland

pp 227-242

Bibliography

pp 243-276

Notes on the Contributors

pp 277-278

Index

pp 279-292