Buch, Englisch, Band 154, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 426 g
The Female Subject in Two Generations of East German Women Writers
Buch, Englisch, Band 154, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 426 g
Reihe: Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur
ISBN: 978-90-420-0937-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
In this bold rethinking of the question, Cheryl Dueck goes beyond the social, political, and psychological discourses that Marx and Freud, Foucault and Lacan viewed as the initiators of modern (socialist) identities to explore the literature and discourse of the quest for unity of the female subject. Reading such authors as Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, Helga Königsdorf, and Helga Schubert, Dueck traces the striking fissures which run through time and through the female self, haunting women within the socialist project.
The book shows how two generations of women writers have struggled consciously and systematically in their letters, aesthetic writings, and literary production to create a new language to express their own sense of self within a restrictive socialist and patriarchal system. Rifts in Time and in the Self offers an unprecedented look at the reconceptualizations of the female subject during several phases of GDR history, and women writers’ persistent attempt to carve out spaces of identity and community.
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INTRODUCTION
Rifts in Time and in the Self
1 FROM HEALTHY TO HYSTERICAL
The Transition of the Female Subject in the 1960s
2 UTOPIA?
Re-evaluating the Socialist Self in the Early 1970s
3 THE WOMAN IN QUESTION
The Short Stories of Helga Königsdorfer and Helga Schubert in the 1970s and 1980s
4 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Women’s Narration of the Subject in the GDR’s Declining Years
5 THE WENDE AS RIFT
The Literary Subject after Unification
6 HEALING THE WOUND?
Subjectivity at the Millennium
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