W.G. Sebald

About this book

This volume presents the work of internationally renowned scholars from Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, the UK and the US. The focus on W.G. Sebald{u2019}s writing as that of an expatriate author offers a fresh and productive approach to Sebald scholarship. In one way or another, all 28 essays in this innovative, bi-lingual collection take up the notion of Sebald{u2019}s experience as an expatriate writer: be it in the analysis of intertextual, transmedial and generic border crossings, on the 2exposure to the other3 and the experience of alterity, on the question of identity construction and performance, on affinities with other expatriate writers, on the recurring topics of 2home3, 2exile3, 2dislocation3 and 2migration3, or on the continuing work of 2memory3 to work through and to preserve the consciousness of a destructive past that has informed the childhood as much as the adult life-world of the author. - From publisher's website.