Barbara Frischmuth in contemporary context

This collection of essays illustrates the broad range of topics and themes associated with Barbara Frischmuth's oeuvre. The individual contributions examine various topics and fiction, essays, her role as an author of radio plays, her interviews dealing with such matters as multicultural components in contemporary literature. An additional focus on her more recent essays provides further insight into her engagement as a writer concerned with societal and political change in order to bridge the cultural gaps between different ethnic constituents. Frischmuth represents not only past and present literary voices and themes but reflects a true dynamic concern for the future specifically in its social, ecological, multicultural and literary dimension from a woman writer's point of view.