The self in transition : : East German autobiographical writing before and after unification : essays in honour of Dennis Tate / / edited by David Clarke, Axel Goodbody.

• Superior document: German Monitor ; Number 75
• TeilnehmendeR: Clarke, David, 1972-; Goodbody, Axel, 1950-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English; German
• Series: German monitor ; Number 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Foreword /; Introduction /; Omissions and Revisions: Hans Marchwitza’s Autobiographical Writing /; Verehrter Gen. Ulbricht: Negotiations of Self and Socialist Identity in Greta Kuckhoff’s Letters /; ‘Ein Kommunist kann nicht die Politik seiner Partei vom Blickwinkel seines Einzelschicksals her begreifen’: Rudi Goguels Schreiben über das eigene Leben /; Why Stay? Shifting Perspectives on ‘Inner Emigration’ and Resistance in the Works of Elfriede Brüning /; Heinrich von Kleist in Christa Wolfs Kein Ort. Nirgends /; ‘Aber erzählen läßt sich nichts ohne Zeit’: Time and Atemporality in Christa Wolf’s Subjectively Authentic Narratives /; From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Living with Ghosts: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster and Leibhaftig /; Poetic Reflections on Stunted Lives: Wulf Kirsten’s Contribution to East German Autobiographical Writing /; Institutionen hatten ‘sich in der Landschaft festgesetzt wie ägyptische Pyramiden’: Volker Brauns Lebens/Werk und sein Hinze-Kunze-Roman in der Dialektik von Stagnation und Radikalkritik /; ‘Ein Botschafter des Vergessenen’: Günter de Bruyn, the Chronicler /; Re-writing My Life and Work: Jurij Brězan's Autobiographical Writings /; ‘Idylle mit Gewehr’: Volker Brauns Versuche einer Annäherung an den Vater in Das Mittagsmahl /; Vom verblendeten Selbst zum gewendeten Selbst: Der Wandel in der narrativen Identität in den Selbstreflexionen Günter Schabowskis nach 1989 /; ‘Wer schreibt, kann nicht töten’: Writing and Life in Reinhard Jirgl’s Abtrünnig: Roman aus der nervösen Zeit /; Experience, Military Fiction and the Shameful Self in Ingo Schulze’s Neue Leben /; Memories of a GDR-Watcher, oder: Die westdeutsche Germanistik und die DDR-Literatur /; Dennis Tate: List of Publications /; Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: "Dennis Tate: list of publications": pages 285-292.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401208689
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by David Clarke, Axel Goodbody.

Taking as its starting point the work of Professor Dennis Tate, this volume brings together essays which explore varieties of East German autobiographical writing before, during and after German unification. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self through literature in response to historical change, analysing how authors have negotiated social transition in the East German context. Many of the contributions also discuss how authors have sought to understand lives which have spanned the National Socialist, socialist and post-unification periods. This volume will be particularly valuable to students and researchers working on contemporary Germany and its culture, as well as to those with an interest in autobiographical writing.