--- Lia Hestina <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> Datum: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:17:35 +0000
> Von: Lia Hestina <[log in to unmask]>
> Betreff: NBA: Mapping the Contours of Oppression
> An: [log in to unmask]
>
> Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce following
> new publication in
> German Studies:
>
> Mapping the Contours of Oppression:
> Subjectivity, Truth and Fiction in Recent German
> Autobiographical
> Treatments of Totalitarianism.
> Owen Evans.
> Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. XII, 356 pp.
> (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur
> 156)
> ISBN: 90-420-1719-8 €74,- / US $93.-
> Online info:
> http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=AMPU+156
>
> Despite all the assertions towards the end of the
> twentieth century that
> the literary subject had expired along with the
> author, the wave of
> autobiographies published in German after the Wende
> was a clear indication
> that, on the contrary, life stories were very much
> alive. In this study,
> Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors –
> Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger,
> Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert,
> Christoph Hein, Grete Weil
> and Monika Maron – who all published personal texts
> after 1989 dealing
> either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in
> some cases both. By
> means of close textual analysis, Evans explores the
> impact these regimes
> had on the individuals concerned and the contrasting
> ways in which the
> authors handle the autobiographical project. They
> adopt varying textual
> strategies to render the self on the page, with some
> employing overt
> fiction, and yet in each case, the project was
> clearly motivated by the
> need to treat psychological wounds inflicted on the
> self by
> totalitarianism. In their mapping of the contours of
> oppression, the texts
> at the heart of this study combine to offer a
> powerful defence of literary
> autobiography, in Germany at least, as a valuable
> means of tackling the
> legacy of totalitarianism.
>
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> http://www.rodopi.nl or
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