Shifting perspectives
Subtitle: East German autobiographical narratives before and after the end of the GDR
By: Dennis Tate.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781571133724
Subjects: German prose literature -- Germany (East) -- History and criticism; German prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Autobiographical fiction, German -- Germany (East); Autobiographical memory in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Autobiographical writing in the East German context and beyond; title: Brigitte Reimann: the constraints of first-person fiction; title: Franz Fühmann: the deconstruction of an "exemplary" biography; title: Stefan Heym: strategies of self-concealment in fictional and autobiographical mode; title: Günter de Bruyn: from the "lies" of fiction to the "truth" of autobiography?; title: Christa Wolf: "subjective authenticity" in practice: an evolving.