Dear Colleagues,
The July issue of German Life and Letters is now available. This Special
Number - 'The GDR between Conformism and Subversion' - is edited by Pól Ó
Dochartaigh and consists of selected papers from the 2009 Ulster conference
of the CUTG/AGS.
For abstracts and further details visit:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118509619/home
John Sandford
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CONTENTS
'Geteilte Stadt' (poem by Volker Braun inspired by his visit to Belfast)
Introduction: The GDR between Conformism and Subversion (Pól Ó Dochartaigh)
Censorship and Opinion Formation: Franziska Linkerhand on the GDR Stage
(Laura Bradley)
'Eine Bindung durch Hass': Double-Agency, Mimesis and the Role of Hands in
Monika Maron's Stille Zeile Sechs (Annie Ring)
'Nachleben': Volker Braun and the Death and Afterlife of the GDR (Karen
Leeder)
Die Überlebensfigur Sächsische Dichterschule (Gerrit-Jan Berendse)
Playing with the 'Erbe': Songs of the 1848 Revolution in the GDR (David
Robb)
'Ostpolitik, Nordpolitik': Partition and National Identity in Germany and
Ireland (Pól Ó Dochartaigh)
The Last Gasp of Socialism: Economics and Culture in 1960s East Germany
(Andrew Evans)
Negotiating 'Femininity' in the GDR Prison Narrative: Discourses of
Character Development and Incorrigibility in Elisabeth Graul's Die Farce
(1991) (Kim Richmond)
'Ich wollte eine Distel im sozialistischen Rosengarten sein' -
Autobiographische Texte von zwei DDR-Jugendgenerationen (Katja Warchold)
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