Rereading East Germany the literature and film of the GDR

This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essay...

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Weitere Verfasser: Leeder, Karen 1962- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Karen Leeder
  • The GDR and its literature: an overview / Wolfgang Emmerich
  • Resurrected from the ruins: the emergence of GDR culture / Stephen Brockmann
  • DEFA's antifascist myths and the construction of national identity in East German cinema / Seán Allan
  • From 'Faust PartIII' to 'Germania III': drama in the GDR / Holder Teschke
  • Autobiographical writing in the GDR era / Dennis Tate
  • Gender in GDR literature / Georgina Paul
  • Negotiating the politics and aesthetics of satire: satirical novels in the GDR and beyond / Jill E. Twark
  • The politics of dialogue: poetry in the GDR / Gerrit-Jan Berendse
  • Underground literature? The unofficial culture of the GDR and its development after the Wende / Birgit Dahlke
  • Tinker, tailor, writer, spy: GDR literature and the Stasi / Alison Lewis
  • Intellectuals and the Wende: missed opportunities and dashed hopes / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
  • A footnote in history? Remembering the GDR in the Berli Republicn / Karen Leeder