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Mapping the contours of oppression : subjectivity, truth and fiction in recent German autobiographical treatments of totalitarianism /

Despite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Owen, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 156. Bd.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors - Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger, Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Grete Weil and Monika Maron - who all published personal texts after 1989 dealing either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in some cases both. By means of close textual.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (356 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index.
ISBN:1423785975
9781423785972
ISSN:0169-0221 ;