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Humor, satire, and identity : eastern German literature in the 1990s /
This is the first book in English to explore the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. The ten novels in this survey include works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These popular, conte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Humor and satire as responses to the Wende
- The comic survivor : self-irony and defensiveness in the post-Wende transition
- Thomas Rosenlöcher's Die Wiederentdeckung des Gehens beim Wandern
- Bernd Schirmer's Schlehweins Giraffe
- Jens Sparschuh's Der Zimmerspringbrunnen
- The picaresque as a means to reckon with the GDR
- Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir
- Bashing Christa Wolf : Brussig's attacks on GDR intellectuals, women, and Ostalgie
- Matthias Biskupek's Der Quotensachse
- Reinhard Ulbrich's Spur der Broiler
- Regional identities and family feuds under the microscope of ironic realism
- Erich Loest's Katerfrühstück
- Ingo Schulze's Simple storys
- Grotesque configurations of body, language, and narrative as expressions of trauma and refractory identities
- Volker Braun's Der Wendehals
- Kerstin Hensel's Gipshut
- Building an Eastern German identity by sustaining and subverting past and present German society
- Interview with Bernd Schirmer
- Interview with Matthias Biskupek
- Interview with Thomas Rosenlöcher
- Interview with Jens Sparschuh
- Interview with Reinhard Ulbrich.