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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Martin Kane (ed.)
LEGACIES AND IDENTITY
East and West German Literary Responses to Unification
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2002.
209 pp. British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature.
Vol. 31 General Editors: H.S. Reiss und W.E. Yates.
ISBN 3-906769-70-4 / US-ISBN 0-8204-5907-0 pb.
sFr. 55.00 / EUR* 37.90 / EUR** 35.40 / £ 23.00 / US-$ 33.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
This volume seeks to trace the robustly critical process of historical,
political and personal self-examination to be found in German
literature of the 1990s. Scholars from Australia, Britain, Germany, and
the USA have contributed essays which deal with a broad range of East
and West German writers (Biskupek, Grass, Hilbig, Königsdorf, Maron,
Mensching, Walser, Wenzel, and Wolf) as well as with general topics
such as literature and the "Stasi", and the response to the aftermath
of unification to be found in autobiographical writing, lyric poetry,
satirical fiction and cabaret texts. For all their diversity, a common
thread can be discerned in these writers and the literature they have
produced: a concern for the particularity of the East German
experience, past and present, and a desire to explore that discrete
identity - in both its positive and negative aspects - which stubbornly
persisted over a decade in which the citizens of the German Democratic
Republic saw themselves, their institutions, and their culture, swept
up and consigned to oblivion.
Contents: Martin Kane: Preface - Dennis Tate: The End of Autobiography?
The older generation of East German authors take stock - Edwin
Kratschmer: GDR Writers in the "Stasi" Net - Paul Cooke: "Opfer" or
"Täter"? From "Opfer" to "Täter"? Identity and the "Stasi" in post-
"Wende" East German literature - Alan Corkhill: Walls of Silence:
Wolfgang Hilbig's critique of GDR society in his short fiction since
the "Wende" - Andrew Plowman: History, Identity and the Writer: Helga
Königsdorf and Monika Maron since 1990 - Peter Hutchinson: «Der
Sozialismus geht und Johnny Walker kommt»: German poetry of the "Wende"
and unification - Ruth J. Owen: The Colonizing West: Post-"Wende"
poetry by Heiner Müller, Steffen Mensching and Bert Papenfuß in the
1990s - Jill Twark: «Hurra, Humor ist nicht mehr eingeplant!» East
German satirists speak out - Stuart Taberner: A Matter of Perspective?
Martin Walser's fiction in the 1990s - Peter Graves: Christa Wolf in
the 1990s - Martin Kane: In the Firing Line: Günter Grass and his
critics in the 1990s.
The Editor: Martin Kane, until his retirement, taught modern German
literature and politics. He has published on various aspects of
twentieth-century and particularly East and West German literature. He
is at present working on a study of Ferdinand Lassalle.
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