What Remains : : Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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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

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