Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – Success in Circuit lies1 - Emily Dickinson Even two decades after unification, current discussions of a lingering division between East and West Germans elicit doubts that Germany’s ongoing economic success provides an elixir against social alienation2. This article compares several works by two younger writers, Julia Schoch and Antje Strubel (both b. 1974), who transcribe elements of daily life as it is experienced from within this ongoing social alienation and who reference a feminist critique of power. Their works evidence what I label a residue from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). This GDR residue comprises oblique references from or about the GDR brought into a contemporary (post-19...
Born in East Berlin in 1970, author Julia Franck has published four works, in which once can trace h...
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the overthrow of the socialist regime did not only bring abo...
Seit den 1960er Jahren produzierten Schriftstellerinnen in der DDR wie Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgne...
This dissertation examines the development of the female literary subject in the work of two generat...
West German literature has turned its back to the existence of the second German state until the 198...
The study is in two parts. The first part examines the representation of the academic institute and ...
The study is in two parts. The first part examines the representation of the academic institute and ...
Since the tumultuous events of 1989/1990, writers, film-makers and academics have responded to, reco...
My dissertation posits the GDR as a fantastic construct with an intriguing development. From the uto...
This paper grew out of concluding comments made at the Washington conference; in its present form it...
This dissertation analyzes the central role of interior monologue and subjectivity in the GDR’s disc...
This essay analyzes the works of Angela Krauß and Antje Rávic Strubel with travel and dislocation as...
For many authors who grew up in the GDR, the motif of childhood (though with no trace of idyllic re...
At the center of my dissertation project are authors Lily Braun (1865-1916), Hermynia Zur Mühlen (18...
When considering the blockage of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the histor...
Born in East Berlin in 1970, author Julia Franck has published four works, in which once can trace h...
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the overthrow of the socialist regime did not only bring abo...
Seit den 1960er Jahren produzierten Schriftstellerinnen in der DDR wie Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgne...
This dissertation examines the development of the female literary subject in the work of two generat...
West German literature has turned its back to the existence of the second German state until the 198...
The study is in two parts. The first part examines the representation of the academic institute and ...
The study is in two parts. The first part examines the representation of the academic institute and ...
Since the tumultuous events of 1989/1990, writers, film-makers and academics have responded to, reco...
My dissertation posits the GDR as a fantastic construct with an intriguing development. From the uto...
This paper grew out of concluding comments made at the Washington conference; in its present form it...
This dissertation analyzes the central role of interior monologue and subjectivity in the GDR’s disc...
This essay analyzes the works of Angela Krauß and Antje Rávic Strubel with travel and dislocation as...
For many authors who grew up in the GDR, the motif of childhood (though with no trace of idyllic re...
At the center of my dissertation project are authors Lily Braun (1865-1916), Hermynia Zur Mühlen (18...
When considering the blockage of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the histor...
Born in East Berlin in 1970, author Julia Franck has published four works, in which once can trace h...
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the overthrow of the socialist regime did not only bring abo...
Seit den 1960er Jahren produzierten Schriftstellerinnen in der DDR wie Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgne...