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Subtitle: love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
By: John Griffith Urang.
Series: Signale; Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell University Library
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801476532
Subjects: Love stories, German -- Germany (East) -- History and criticism; German fiction -- Germany (East) -- History and criticism; Romance films -- Germany (East) -- History; Love in literature; Love in motion pictures; Love -- Social aspects -- Germany (East); Germany (East) -- Civilization
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Eros and exchange; title: Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity; title: Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival; title: Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism; title: W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989; title: Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR; title: Coda : a chameleon wedding.