E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7697-6
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere. Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.