Sonja E. Klocke

Inscription and Rebellion

Illness and the Symptomatic Body in East German Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The health-care system of the German Democratic Republic reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health of both its citizens and of the metaphorical national body meant to represent and promulgate the nation's political vitality. Yet many East German literary writers depicted characters ailing and under medical care, and even after the country's dissolution in 1990, writers who had lived there continued to portray sickness and the GDR health-care system prominently in their fiction. This book offers an innovative reading of such texts, employing historical research on the GDR's health-care system and feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy." --

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Produktdetails

• Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781571139337
• ISBN-10: 1571139338
• Artikelnr.: 42750170

Autorenporträt

Sonja E. Klocke

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Disease
Death
and Desire Pre-1989: Christa Wolf's Symptomatic GDR Bodies Christa Wolf's Goodbye to Socialism?: Illness
Healing
and Faith since 1990 Retrospective Imagination in Post-GDR Literature: Gender
Violence
and Politics in Medical Discourses Haunted in Post-Wall Germany: Sickness
Symptomatic Bodies
and the Specters of the GDR Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index