Introduction / Karen Leeder -- The GDR and its literature: an overview / Wolfgang Emmerich -- Resurrected from the ruins: the emergence of GDR culture / Stephen Brockmann -- DEFA's antifascist myths and the construction of national identity in East German cinema / Sean Allan -- From 'Faust PartIII' to 'Germania III': drama in the GDR / Holder Teschke -- Autobiographical writing in the GDR era / Dennis Tate -- Gender in GDR literature / Georgina Paul -- Negotiating the politics and aesthetics of satire: satirical novels in the GDR and beyond / Jill E. Twark -- The politics of dialogue: poetry in the GDR / Gerrit-Jan Berendse -- Underground literature? The unofficial culture of the GDR and its development after the Wende / Birgit Dahlke -- Tinker, tailor, writer, spy: GDR literature and the Stasi / Alison Lewis -- Intellectuals and the Wende: missed opportunities and dashed hopes / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- A footnote in history? Remembering the GDR in the Berli Republicn / Karen Leeder.
Summary:
"This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the unification in 1990 and beyond, with in-depth analysis of individual works. A final chapter traces the resonance of the GDR in the years since its demise and analyses the fascination it engenders. The volume provides a 'rereading' of East Germany and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon free from the prejudices that prevailed while it existed, offering English translations throughout, a guide to further reading and a chronology"-- Provided by publisher.
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