Christa Wolf : a companion / edited by Sonja E. Klocke and Jennifer R. Hosek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klocke, Sonja E., editor.

Hosek, Jennifer Ruth, editor.

Series:

Companions to contemporary German culture ; v. 8.

Companions to contemporary German culture ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wolf, Christa--Criticism and interpretation.

Wolf, Christa.

Women authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage well-known aesthetic and political issues that the public intellectual herself fore-fronted. This broad-ranging introduction to the author, her work and times builds upon and moves beyond such foundational interpretative frameworks by articulating the global relevance of Wolf's oeuvre today, also for non-German readers. Thus, it brings East German culture alive to students, teachers, scholars and the general public by connecting the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the lived experiences of its citizens to nations and cultures around the world. The collection focuses on topical matters including the search for authenticity, agency, race, cosmopolitanism, gender, environmentalism, geopolitics, war, and memory debates, as well as movie adaptations and Wolf's film work with DEFA, marketing, and international reception. Our contributions - by senior and emerging scholars from across the globe - emphasize Wolf's position as an author of world literature and an important critical voice in the 21st century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

A Note on Translations

Introduction: Reading Christa Wolf in the Twenty-First Century / Klocke, Sonja E. / Hosek, Jennifer R.

Modernity and the City in Christa Wolf's Oeuvre of the 1960s / Swope, Curtis

Narrative Topographies in Christa Wolf's Oeuvre / Criser, Regine

The Gendered Reception of Christa Wolf / Kuhn, Anna K.

Unearthing a Post-Humanist Ecological Socialism in Christa Wolf's 'Selbstversuch', Kassandra and Störfall / Janson, Deborah

Nature, Power and Literature: Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall. Nachrichten eines Tages as 'Ecological Force' in Times of Climate Crisis / Mering, Sabine von

Literature and Visual Art in Christa Wolf's Sommerstück (1989) and Was bleibt (1990) / Skare, Roswitha

Learning from the Underground: Christa Wolf and the Fourth Generation of GDR Writers / Horakova, Anna

From Pan-German Cosmopolitanism to Nostalgic National Insularity: A Comparative Study of Christa Wolf's Kassandra and Medea / Pizer, John

Christa Wolf's Trouble with Race / Weber, Beverly M.

Towards a Late Style? Christa Wolf on Old Age, Death and Creativity in Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud / Smale, Catherine

The Protocol of Barriers to Thinking? Wolf's Moskauer Tagebücher. Wer wir sind und wer wir waren (2014) / Dahlke, Birgit

Translating Subjective Authenticity from Christa T. to Stadt der Engel and August: Re-presenting Christa Wolf's Subaltern Voice / Summers, Caroline

From Political-Realistic Reading to Multiperspectival Understanding: The Reception of Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel in China / Chen, Yutian / Zhang, Fan

Reading Christa Wolf in Socialist Vietnam / Trinh, Huynh Mai

Christa Wolf: A Select Bibliography / Klocke, Sonja E.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2018).

ISBN:

9783110493450

3110493454

9783110496000

3110496003

OCLC:

1029823357