Adolescence is a phase of transition, change and upheaval. These processes are often translated into movements through space in literary representations. The narrated space is to be read in its construction and semantics as a complex symbol carrier that is able to connect different dimensions with one another. The study develops, with reference to cultural-scientific spatial theories, a methodical model to analyze current youth novels from a topographical perspective and thus to discuss the interweaving of space, movement and growing up. In the cultural studies and narratological view of (narrative) spaces of adolescence, new trends and developments in youth literature after 2000 manifest themselves.
This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Räume der Adoleszenz by Anna Stemmann, published by J.B. Metzler, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translationby the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Anna Stemmann is Juniorprofessor for German literature with focus on children's and youth literature and media at the University of Leipzig.

1 Topographies of adolescence.- 2 Space, literature, culture.- Methodical considerations.- 3 Travel and driving around.- Road Novels.- 4 Adolescence finds the city.- Urban spaces in motion.- 5 Excursus: Transitional passages in archaic space.- 6 Non-movement , Standstill, staying on.- the poetics of stagnation.- 7 textures of rag.