Author: Martin Norman WatsonPublisher:
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Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The literary presentation of "youth" in GDR fiction
Author: Martin Norman WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Science Fiction Literature in East Germany
Author: Sonja FritzschePublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039107391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Bibliographic Guide to Soviet and East European Studies
Author: Ernst Wiechert
Author: Hugh Alexander BoagPublisher:
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Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Writing Without Taboos
Author: James Henderson ReidPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book assesses the achievements of East German writers, placing their work in the context of the vicissitudes of cultural politics and East-West relations. It identifies the major themes of East German literature, such as the search for self-realisation, the questioning of official assumptions on the achievements of 'real socialism', and a concern to view the GDR in the framework of its own past as well as that which it shares with its Western neighbour.
Educating Rita and Her "sisters"
Author: Virginia Irene SteinhagenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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GDR Monitor
Author: Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic
Author: Chris WeedonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004544909
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
More than thirty years after German reunification, Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic addresses how life in the GDR is remembered, thereby enriching and complexifying the narratives of East German life found in public history, museums, tourist venues, film, media and popular fiction. The frequent stress on material lack, social restrictions and the repressive state is expanded and reconfigured by interviewees who variously both challenge and confirm widespread assumptions about what it meant to live in the GDR. Aimed at a wide readership, this book gives English-speaking readers access to varied and detailed accounts of everyday life, individual engagement with state institutions and different views of GDR politics, society and culture.
Research on the GDR "auf Englisch"
Author: Anita M. MallinckrodtPublisher:
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Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Somebody's Daughter
Author: Petra M. BagleyPublisher:
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Category : Daughters in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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