Humor, Satire, and Identity : : Eastern German Literature in the 1990s / / Jill Twark.
This is the first book in English to survey the Eastern German literary trend of employing humor and satire to come to terms with experiences in the German Democratic Republic and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As sophisticated attempts to make sense of socialism’s failure and a difficult unific...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (471 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- i-iv
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction. Humor and Satire as Responses to the Wende
- Chapter 1. The Comic Survivor: Self-Irony and Defensiveness in the Post-Wende Transition
- Chapter 2. The Picaresque as a Means to Reckon with the GDR
- Chapter 3. Regional Identities and Family Feuds Under the Microscope of Ironic Realism
- Chapter 4. Grotesque Configurations of Body, Language, and Narrative as Expressions of Trauma and Refractory Identities
- Conclusion. Building an Eastern German Identity by Sustaining and Subverting Past and Present German Society
- Appendices
- Works Consulted