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Christa Wolf [electronic resource] : a companion / edited by Sonja E. Klocke and Jennifer R. Hosek

Published:
Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]
Physical Description:
viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:
Klocke, Sonja E. and Hosek, Jennifer Ruth
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Contents:
Introduction: Reading Christa Wolf in the twenty-first century / Curtis Swope -- Modernity and the city in Christa Wolf's Oeuvre of the 1960s / Regine Criser -- Narrative topographies in Christa Wolf's Oeuvre / Anna K. Kuhn -- The gendered reception of Christa Wolf / Deborah Janson -- Unearthing a post-humanist ecological socialism in Christa Wolf's "Selbstversuch", Kassandra and Störfall / Sabine von Mering -- Nature, power and literature: Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall. Nachrichten eines Tages as "ecological force" in times of climate crisis / Roswitha Skare -- Literature and visual art in Christa Wolf's Sommerstück (1989) and Was bleibt (1990) / Anna Horakova -- Learning from the underground: Christa Wolf and the fourth generation of GDR Writers / John Pizer -- From Pan-German cosmopolitanism to nostalgic national insularity: A comparative study of Christa Wolf's Kassandra and Medea / Beverly M. Weber -- Christa Wolf's trouble with race / Catherine Smale -- Towards a late style?: Christa Wolf on old age, death and creativity in Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud / Birgit Dahlke -- The protocol of barriers to thinking?: Wolf's Moskauer Tagebücher. Wer wir sind und wer wir waren (2014) / Caroline Summers -- Translating subjective authenticity from Christa T. to Stadt der Engel and August: Re-presenting Christa Wolf's subaltern voice / Yutian Chen and Fan Zhang -- From political-realistic reading to multiperspectival understanding: The reception of Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel in China / Huynh Mai Trinh -- Reading Christa Wolf in socialist Vietnam / collated by Sonja E. Klocke -- Christa Wolf: A select bibliography.
Summary:
"This broad-ranging, English-language anthology introduces the renowned public intellectual Christa Wolf in her times and for today. Scholars from across the globe explore the East German author's variously received oeuvre and her influence in world literature. From new perspectives, they highlight topics such as subjective authenticity, agency, gender, environmentalism, geopolitics, war, and memory, and Wolf's work on film"--
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ISBN:
9783110491999 (softcover : acid-free paper)
9783110496000 (pdf)
9783110493450 (epub)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
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