Dennis Tate

Shifting Perspectives

East German Autobiographical Narratives Before and After the End of the GDR

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First treatment of a conspicuously East German feature in today's German literature, that of autobiographical writing -- and rewriting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781571133724
• ISBN-10: 1571133720
• Artikelnr.: 22594852

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: East German Autobiographical Prose: Challenging Conventional
Genre Distinctions Autobiographical Writing in the East German Context and
Beyond Brigitte Reimann: The Constraints of First-Person Fiction Franz
Fühmann: The Deconstruction of an "Exemplary" Biography Stefan Heym:
Strategies of Self-Concealment in Fictional and Autobiographical Mode
Günter de Bruyn: From the "Lies" of Fiction to the "Truth" of
Autobiography? Christa Wolf: "Subjective Authenticity" in Practice: An
Evolving Autobiographical Project Bibliography Index