Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to one
of the most intriguing bodies of modern literature, that produced in the
German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers
using German in other countries. The linguistic consanguinity of these
locales notwithstanding, there are considerable variations in literary
tenor and approach within each of them. This volume covers an extensive
period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called "zero hour" for
German literature and proceeds through the remainder of the 20th
century, concluding in 2008.