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From: Wälle Philipp <[log in to unmask]>
Martin Kane (ed.)
Legacies and Identity
East and West German Literary Responses to Unification
PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
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.- / E1* 37.90 / E2** 35.40 / £ 23.- / US-$ 33.95
* includes VAT and is 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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