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Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination / John Griffith Urang.
LIBRA PT3723.5.L6 U73 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Urang, John Griffith, 1975-
- Series:
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance fiction, German--Germany (East)--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction, German.
- Civilization.
- Romance films.
- History.
- Germany (East).
- German fiction--Germany (East)--History and criticism.
- German fiction.
- Romance films--Germany (East)--History.
- Love in literature.
- Love in motion pictures.
- Love--Social aspects--Germany (East).
- Love--Social aspects.
- Love.
- Germany (East)--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Eros and exchange
- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity
- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival
- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism
- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989
- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR
- Coda : a chameleon wedding.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801476532
- 0801476534
- OCLC:
- 475444574
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