Shifting perspectives : East German autobiographical narratives before and after the end of the GDR /

Tate provides a detailed account of 'subjective authenticity' in German literature: its origins in the 1930s' exile debates, its evolution during the GDR's lifespan, and its manifestations in the work of five East German authors: Brigitte Reinmann, Franz Fühmann, Stefan Heym, Gu...

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Hlavní autor: Tate, Dennis
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House ©2007.
Edice:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81hvg
Obsah:
  • Autobiographical writing in the East German context and beyond
  • Brigitte Reimann: the constraints of first-person fiction
  • Franz Fühmann: the deconstruction of an "exemplary" biography
  • Stefan Heym: strategies of self-concealment in fictional and autobiographical mode
  • Günter de Bruyn: from the "lies" of fiction to the "truth" of autobiography?
  • Christa Wolf: "subjective authenticity" in practice: an evolving.