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Author:

Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

Title:

Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination / John Griffith Urang.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press :

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Love stories, German--Germany (East)--History and criticism.
German fiction--Germany (East)--History and criticism.
Romance films--Germany (East)--History.
Love in literature.
Love in motion pictures.
Love--Social aspects--Germany (East)
Germany (East)--Civilization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Eros and exchange -- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity -- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival -- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism -- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989 -- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR -- Coda : a chameleon wedding.

Series:

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought.

ISBN:

0801476534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801476532 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)475444574

LCCN:

2010009971

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)