What Remains : : Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf / / ed. by Patricia Herminghouse, Gerald Fetz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bathrick, David,; Blankenship, Robert,; Byg, Barton,; Colombo, Daniela,; Eigler, Friederike,; Eisman, April A.,; Emde, Silke Von Der,; Fetz, Gerald A.,; Fetz, Gerald,; Guntersdorfer, Ivett Rita,; Herminghouse, Patricia,; Janson, Deborah,; Kanz, Christine,; Kolb, Martina,; Lauer, Mark,; Ludwig, Janine,; Rinner, Susanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Mulder, Marijke,; Polster, Heike,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

Arguably the most important—and influential—German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and consigned her to an ideologically suspect identity as "DDR Schriftstellerin” (GDR writer) or “Staatsdichterin” (state poet). What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf asks the question of what truly remains of her legacy in the annals of contemporary German culture and history. Unlike most of what appeared in the wake of Wolf’s death, however, the contributions to this international volume seek neither to monumentalize her nor to dismantle her stature, but to employ a range of methodologies—comparative, intertextual, psychoanalytic, historical, transcultural—to offer sensitive assessments of Wolf’s major literary texts, as well as of her lesser known work in genres such as film and essay.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Patterns of Memory: The Trauma of the Forgotten -- Chapter 1. “Faraway So Close”: Transcultural Memory as Christa Wolf ’s “Last Word” -- Chapter 2. Who’s Afraid of Christa Wolf or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud: Memory and Its Discontents -- Chapter 3. Fetishism or Working Through? Concerning the Role of Dr. Freud in City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud -- Part II. Christa Wolf as a Writer of Time and Her Times -- Chapter 4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood -- Chapter 5. Writing the Self: Literary Vergegenwärtigung in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood and City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud -- Chapter 6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf -- Chapter 7. Subjective Authenticity as Realism: Christa Wolf and Georg Lukács -- Part III. Christa Wolf in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 8. To Be Recognized Again: Memory, Amnesia, and Sincerity in Christa Wolf -- Chapter 9. “Was bleibt aber, stiften die Dichter”: Christa Wolf ’s Contested Role as Spokesperson for Generations of Readers and Women Writers -- Chapter 10. “This Is No Longer My World”: The Multiple Alienations of Christa Wolf -- Part IV. Illness, Anxiety, and Trauma -- Chapter 11. “To Follow the Trail of Pain”: Coming to Terms with the Past in Christa Wolf ’s In the Flesh -- Chapter 12. Deliberating the “ängstliche Margarete”: Coping with Anxiety in Christa Wolf ’s City of Angels or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud -- Chapter 13. Coming Full Circle: Trauma, Empathy, and Writing in “Change of Perspective” (“Blickwechsel,” 1970) and “August” (2011) -- Part V. Christa Wolf and the Visual Arts -- Chapter 14. A Woman’s Voice on Screen: Christa Wolf and the Cinema -- Chapter 15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Female Consciousness in Divided Heaven and Good Bye, Lenin! -- Chapter 16. The Impact of Christa Wolf ’s Cassandra on Women Artists in East Germany -- INDEX