Table of Contents:
  • Introduction-closing a Bildungslücke: genre fiction and why it is important / Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, and Vibeke Rützou Petersen
  • German science fiction: its formative works and its postwar uses of the Holocaust / Vibeke Rützou Petersen
  • A future history out of time: the historical context of Döblin's expressionist dystopian experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten / Evan Torner
  • Eco-Eschbach: sustainability in the science fiction of Andreas Eschbach / Sonja Fritzsche
  • Murder in the Weimar Republic: prejudice, politics, and the popular in the socialist crime fiction of Hermynia zur Mühlen / Ailsa Wallace
  • The imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the cultural politics of detective fiction in West Germany / Ray Cannoy
  • Justice and genre: the Krimi as a site of memory in contemporary Germany / Bruce B. Campbell
  • Detecting identity: reading the clues in German language crime fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest / Kerry Dunne
  • The pedagogy of pulp: liberated sexuality and its consequences through the eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer / Adam R. King
  • The Kränzchen library and the creation of teenage identity / Maureen O. Gallagher
  • Close the border, mind the gap: pop misogyny and social critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland / Molly Knight.