Shifting Perspectives

East German Autobiographical Narratives before and after the End of the GDR

Autor: Dennis Tate

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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A striking feature of today's German literature is the survival of an East German subculture charact...

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Autor

Dennis Tate

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2007

strony

280

EAN

9781571133724

Enbook ID

04818767

Wydawca

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Waga

558

Wymiary

164 x 234 x 24

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A striking feature of today's German literature is the survival of an East German subculture characterized by its authors' self-reflexive concern with their own lives, not only in texts labelled as autobiography, but also those in the more ambiguous territory of what Christa Wolf has called "subjective authenticity." Dennis Tate provides the first detailed account of this phenomenon: its origins in the 1930s' exile debates, its evolution during the GDR's lifespan, and its manifestations in the work of five East German authors still widely read today: Brigitte Reimann, Franz Fuhmann, Stefan Heym, Gunter de Bruyn, and Christa Wolf.Tate shows how the preoccupation with self arose from the unusually turbulent circumstances in which this generation has lived. Having succumbed early to the temptation to simplify their life stories for misguided educational purposes, these authors have repeatedly reconstructed their personal and political identities as their perspectives on the past have shifted. Tate shows the importance of viewing their autobiographical writing as a multilayered historical process, exposing problems with canonical accounts of East German literature and enabling texts published under GDR censorship to be properly appreciated for the first time. Dennis Tate is Professor of German Studies at the University of Bath, UK.

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