Knowledge of the Stasi in the East German Literary Sphere : Surveillance, Secrecy, and Revelation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Sara.

Series:

Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989 Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Rochester : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The first book to investigate what writers, publishers, and editors knew about the Stasi and how, rethinking the relationship between knowledge, secrecy, intuition, trust, and agency under an authoritarian regime.

Contents:

Front cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Flipping the Script: Surveillance, Secrecy, and Revelation

1: We Know, But We Don't Know How We Know

2: Knowing Who to Trust and Trusting What to Know

3: Looking Back at the Stasi

4: Literature as Knowledge-Between Revelation and Concealment

Conclusion Knowledge as Resistance-Revealing the Public Secret

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80543-994-4