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WOMEN'S WRITING AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE GDR
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| By: |
Helen Bridge |
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Hardback |
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£59.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019925592X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199255924 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 October, 2002 |
| Series: |
Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Description: |
Helen Bridge examines the relationship between literature and historiography in the GDR. Through a series of comparative readings, she traces the development of critical approaches to history in literature by East German women, focusing closely on treatments of the National Socialist past, fictional biographies of historical women, and the use of mythical themes and forms to voice critiques of history. |
| Synopsis: |
This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore how literature by GDR women became a forum for critical approaches to history which challenged the official state discourse. An introductory chapter offers broad theoretical reflections on the modes of literature and historiography, and considers the significance of feminism as a tabooed critical discourse in the GDR. The question of why GDR literature and histororiography developed so differently in the 1970s and 1980s is then pursued through a series of comparative readings of texts by both prominent writers, such as Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, and Helga Konigsdorf, and less established authors, such as Helga Schutz, Sigrid Damm, Renate Feyl, and Brigitte Struzyk. This is not only the first study to offer a detailed comparison of historical and literary discourses in the GDR, but also the first to illuminate relations between three topics popular in East German women's writing: the National Socialist past; the lives of historical women; and the use of mythical themes and forms to voice critiques of history. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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