A "nova" literatura feminina alemã através de sucessos

Abstract

The "new" German literature written by women has had a lot of success both among the critics and the common reader. This is due to a number of factors such as the novelty of women writing about themsclves or about special themes which deal with sexuality, female homosexuality, changes of social roles and chalenges to the status quo of a patriarchal society. In this articles we shall examine ten successful examples of this "new" feminine German literature beginning with the novel A love of classes by Karin Struck (1973) and ending with a novel by Elfriede Jelinck, Desire (1989)