TY  - GEN
T1  - Echoes of surrealism : challenging socialist realism in East German literature, 1945-1990
A1  - Berendse, Gerrit-Jan, 1959-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Berghahn
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1242023429
AB  - "For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused literature and art across the lifespan of the GDR, focusing on individual authors, visual artists, directors, musicians, and other figures who have employed surrealist techniques in their work. It provides a new framework for understanding East German culture, exploring aesthetic practices that offered an alternative to rigid government policies and questioned and confronted the status quo"--
OP  - 215
CN  - PT3710.S87 B47 2021
SN  - 9781800730694
SN  - 1800730691
SN  - 9781800730687
SN  - 1800730683
KW  - German literature : Germany (East) : History and criticism.
KW  - Surrealism (Literature) : Germany (East)
KW  - Surrealism in mass media.
KW  - Literature and society : Germany (East)
KW  - Surréalisme (Littérature) : Allemagne (Est)
KW  - Surréalisme dans les médias.
KW  - Littérature et société : Allemagne (Est)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - German literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Surrealism in mass media
KW  - Surrealism (Literature)
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -