What Remains
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What Remains

Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

What Remains

Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf

About this book

Arguably the most important—and influential—German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and consigned her to an ideologically suspect identity as "DDR Schriftstellerin" (GDR writer) or "Staatsdichterin" (state poet). What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf asks the question of what truly remains of her legacy in the annals of contemporary German culture and history. Unlike most of what appeared in the wake of Wolf's death, however, the contributions to this international volume seek neither to monumentalize her nor to dismantle her stature, but to employ a range of methodologies—comparative, intertextual, psychoanalytic, historical, transcultural—to offer sensitive assessments of Wolf's major literary texts, as well as of her lesser known work in genres such as film and essay.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781836953678, 9781800734968
eBook ISBN
9781800734975
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
20th Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. What Remains
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I
  6. Chapter 1. “Faraway So Close”
  7. Chapter 2. Who’s Afraid of Christa Wolf or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
  8. Chapter 3. Fetishism or Working Through?
  9. Part II
  10. Chapter 4. The Notion of Heimat in Christa Wolf ’s Patterns of Childhood
  11. Chapter 5. Writing the Self
  12. Chapter 6. The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf
  13. Chapter 7. Subjective Authenticity as Realism
  14. Part III
  15. Chapter 8. To Be Recognized Again
  16. Chapter 9. “Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter”
  17. Chapter 10. “This Is No Longer My World”
  18. Part IV
  19. Chapter 11. “To Follow the Trail of Pain”
  20. Chapter 12. Deliberating the “ängstliche Margarete”
  21. Chapter 13. Coming Full Circle
  22. Part V
  23. Chapter 14. A Woman’s Voice on Screen
  24. Chapter 15. Women at the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
  25. Chapter 16. The Impact of Christa Wolf’s Cassandra on Women Artists in East Germany
  26. Index