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Shifting perspectives : East German autobiographical narratives before and after the end of the GDR / Dennis Tate.
Van Pelt Library PT3723.5.A8 T37 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tate, Dennis.
- Series:
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German prose literature--Germany (East)--History and criticism.
- German prose literature.
- German prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, German--Germany (East).
- Autobiographical fiction, German.
- Germany (East).
- Autobiographical memory in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, [2007]
- Summary:
- First treatment of a conspicuously East German strain in today's German literature, that of autobiographical writing -- and rewriting.
- Contents:
- Autobiographical writing in the East German context and beyond
- Brigitte Reimann: the constraints of first-person fiction
- Franz Fühmann: the deconstruction of an "exemplary" biography
- Stefan Heym: strategies of self-concealment in fictional and autobiographical mode
- Günter de Bruyn: from the "lies" of fiction to the "truth" of autobiography?
- Christa Wolf: "subjective authenticity" in practice: an evolving autobiographical project.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571133720
- 9781571133724
- OCLC:
- 85830690
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