Ambivalent literary farewells to the German Democratic Republic : what is lost / John David Pizer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pizer, John David, author.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; v.30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Politics and literature--Germany--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span all periods of German and German-speaking lands and cultures from the local to the global, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines - history, musicology, art history, anthropology, religious studies, media studies, political theory, literary and cultural studies, among others - and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies broadly. All works are in English. Three to four new titles will be published annually.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Translations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Literary Resistance to Reunification Perceived as Colonization in Novels by Günter Grass, Christa Wolf, and Volker Braun

Chapter 2 Europe in East Berlin: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Ostalgic Constructions

Chapter 3 Non-Simultaneity and its Corrective: Thomas Brussig’s Ambivalent Engagement with Reunification

Chapter 4 Performing Reunification as Tragicomedy: Ingo Schulze

Chapter 5 Time out of Joint in Uwe Tellkamp’s The Towe

Coda: Contra Grass: The Embrace of Reunification by Martin Walser, Monika Maron, and Fritz Rudolf Fries as well as the Beginning of the End of Autobiographical Literary Farewells to the GDR

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-072503-7