Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic : : What is Lost / / John David Pizer.
This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and W...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 199 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Literary Resistance to Reunification Perceived as Colonization in Novels by Günter Grass, Christa Wolf, and Volker Braun
- Chapter 2 Europe in East Berlin: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Ostalgic Constructions
- Chapter 3 Non-Simultaneity and its Corrective: Thomas Brussig’s Ambivalent Engagement with Reunification
- Chapter 4 Performing Reunification as Tragicomedy: Ingo Schulze
- Chapter 5 Time out of Joint in Uwe Tellkamp’s The Towe
- Coda: Contra Grass: The Embrace of Reunification by Martin Walser, Monika Maron, and Fritz Rudolf Fries as well as the Beginning of the End of Autobiographical Literary Farewells to the GDR
- Bibliography
- Index