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Post-fascist fantasies : psychoanalysis, history, and the literature of East Germany /
Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of Communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argue...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of Communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues to the contrary that they were in fact complex fictions sharing the theme of antifascism, the founding discourse of the German Democratic Republic. Employing an approach informed by Slavoj Zizek's work on the Communist's sublime body and by British psychoanalytic feminism's concern with feminine subjectivity, Hell first examines the antifascist works by exiled authors and authors tied to the resistance movement. She then strives to understand the role of Christa Wolf, the GDR's most prominent author, in the GDR's effort to reconstruct symbolic power after the Nazi period. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 368 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822399780 0822399784 0822319632 9780822319634 |