Legacies and Identity: East and West German Literary Responses to Unification - Couverture souple

Kane, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3906769704 ISBN 13 : 9783906769707

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2002

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3906769704
• ISBN 13: 9783906769707
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible